tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2010 Issue 1

Case Study Challenge: Check Your CC Knowledge by Digging Into These Detailed Scenarios

You want clinical critical care examples? You got 'em. The ins and outs of critical care coding are difficult to discern without some concrete examples to illustrate 99291 scenarios. So what does a really detailed clinical scenario for critical care look like? We asked Greer Contreras, CPC, senior director of coding for Marina Medical Billing Service Inc. in California. She gave us two samples. The challenge: Look at these case studies and see if you can get all the codes -- diagnosis (ICD-9) and procedure/service (CPT) -- right: Scenario 1: Physician Treats CHF A patient presents to the ED...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert.


You have ED coding questions, and we deliver money-in-the-bank answers to help you defeat your claim issues and secure optimal reimbursement.

Stay in the know and avoid federal reproach with your subscription to TCI’s ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 2100 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 1998 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert +Archives

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.