tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2004 Issue 9

Got the Wind Knocked Out of Your Asthma Diagnoses?

Ensure proper payment with these ICD-9 coding strategiesIf you don't need to rely on the patient's signs and symptoms to report the right asthma code, don't - use more specific codes. But keep in mind that in the ED, signs and symptoms may be all the information available.Medicare focused on asthma for many of its 2004 updates because the disease is a high-profile condition for patients, physicians and payers, says Anthony M. Marinelli, MD, FCCP, chairman of the American Thoracic Society's Clinical Practice Committee. CMS and other carriers may use the data from ICD-9 reports to adjust payments...

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