tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2018 Issue 4

ICD-10: Can You Answer These ICD-10 Coding Questions?

Confirm medical necessity with a sharp diagnosis coding knowledge. As most ED coders are aware, you can't prove medical necessity for your clinicians' services with CPT® codes alone - instead, it's the diagnosis codes that tell the insurer exactly why you had to perform the services you did. Therefore, it's essential that you have a sharp and accurate knowledge of every diagnosis coding section in the ICD-10 manual. Read on and test yourself to see whether you can assign the most appropriate diagnoses to these services. Question 1: A patient presents with complaints of chest pain and thinks he...

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