Laboratory Question for the Week of July 4, 2022
Bryan Nordley
July 3, 2022
What code would I report if the physician has ordered only a CBC with no mention of a differential?
What code would I report if the physician has ordered only a CBC with no mention of a differential?
An interventional cardiologist places three drug-eluting stents, one in the left circumflex and another in the obtuse marginal branch. A third DES stent is deployed within the left anterior descending coronary artery. Do you have any recommendations for reporting?
Interventional radiology coding remains some of the most complex to understand and report accurately. With error rates approaching 30% in many areas, there is a
For IFR what is the difference for codes 93571 and 93572? What is the difference in what the codes represent?
What ICD-10 diagnostic code would we report for COVID-19 testing for asymptomatic patients prior to inpatient admissions, planned outpatient procedures, and immunosuppressant therapies as part of Pre-Procedure Screening for PFT?
What CPT® codes should be charged when performing a lymphoscintigraphy for pre-operative sentinel node localization? Is there an injection code? Should 38792 be charged?
Drug administration charge capture is an important aspect to review when it comes to infusion services, considering that drug administration is a significant component of
What do left heart congenital catheterization codes (93595, 93596, 93597) include?
Does Medicare cover codes 94014 and 94015? We seem to be running into problems when reporting these.
When coding and reporting for services that would fall under 78012 can we unbundle the uptake and imaging procedure into separate component codes?
If you do the AHG technique, do you report all three of the codes, or just 86922?
Our interventional cardiologist deployed a bare-metal stent within the LAD and performs angioplasty within both the LC coronary artery and the RCA. How would we code this?
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