HCPro, JustCoding Outpatient - 2018 Issue 47 (November)

Decipher documentation and code for TKA in the outpatient setting

November 20th, 2018

Beginning in 2018, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) was removed from the Inpatient Only List and assigned a comprehensive APC payment. Outpatient coders need to ensure they are assigning the correct CPT codes for TKA to reduce their hospital’s risk of audits. 

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