tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 33

Coding Coach: Sidestep These 3 X-Ray Scenario Pitfalls

Supercharge your skills by knowing which guidelines to keep handy. Medical coders must be masters of all modalities, but even coding for the long-established x-ray can require you to handle new situations and apply complicated coding rules. Here's the how-to on three real-life x-ray scenarios provided by coders like you.Scenario 1: Your physicians routinely perform AP, lateral, obliques, and spot views that you code using 72110 (Radiologic examination, spine, lumbosacral; minimum of four views). If one doctor also performs flexion and extension views -- in addition to the other views -- for a particular patient, should you report...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations — and onboard your team — with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI's Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement Alert will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, payer policies, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4200 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 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 Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement +Archives

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

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