tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2012 Issue 6

Coding Strategies: Ratchet Up Your Medical Necessity Support With V and E Codes

Expect better performing ED claims with this V & E code tune-up. When it comes to bolstering the medical necessity of your ED claims, V codes and E codes should be an ICD-9 tool that you pull often from your coding toolbox. They can often paint a much clearer picture of that ED patient visit than just the main Tabular List of Diseases. The ED patient visit picture can often be muddied with non-specific diagnosis coding, making it almost impossible to ascertain just from the ICD-9 codes exactly what brought the patient to the ED for this encounter, says...

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