SuperCoder on "I need help which of this GI code would have the TC on them....
I could not understood completely.However among the codes 76000,78528 will require TC modifier.Modifier TC represents the technical component of a service or procedure and includes the cost of...
View ArticleUser id : 34892 on "use code 99143 conscious sedation"
can cons. sedation code 99143 be used with GI procedures egd and or colonoscopy? will medicare or commercial insurance pay?
View ArticleUser id : 22449 on "removal of percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram...
The physician performed a laparoscopic removal of percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram catheter, along with a Laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Need cpt for removal of percutaneous transhepatic...
View ArticleUser id : 49140 on "Diagnosis for nonspecific colonoscopy findings"
Since the colonoscopy started off as a screening, would you also use V76.51?
View ArticleUser id : 30774 on "EGD - previous gastric bypass"
Would you code this with cpt 43239?Procedure and Findings: The Olympus video gastroscope was then advanced from the mouth to the jejunal limbs. Evaluation of the esophagus was normal. Evaluation of the...
View ArticleSuperCoder on "removal of percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram catheter."
Removal and replacement of an external or internal-external biliary drainage catheter is reported with codes 47525, Change of percutaneous biliary drainage catheter, and 75984, Change of percutaneous...
View ArticleUser id : 18436 on "Coding Nursing Home Visits"
Our doctors were consulted to a nursing home. They have never gone before. Not sure what codes to use. When I looked in the book the codes 99304-99310 for nursing faciltiy visits state for admitting...
View ArticleUser id : 25543 on "g-tube button change in office"
I am looking for the code for mickey button change in the office. Any help?
View ArticleUser id : 49140 on "Incomplete Sigmoidoscopy?"
If a flexible sigmoidoscopy stops at the rectosigmoid junction is it considered incomplete?
View ArticleSuperCoder on "EGD - previous gastric bypass"
This is 43239.."A representative gastric biopsy was obtained"
View ArticleSuperCoder on "use code 99143 conscious sedation"
The answer is no.CPT indicates conscious sedation is bundled into many procedures. This means the physician performing both these procedures and conscious sedation could not code separately for...
View ArticleUser id : 49140 on "Rectal polyps 211.4 or 569.0"
I know that 211.4 is used for a rectal or anal polyps identified as adenomatous. Could you give me some examples of what the pathology report might say for a non-adenomatous rectal polyp (to justify...
View ArticleUser id : 23843 on "post status"
pt has a nonhelaing post op wound ~998.83~ due to a hx of dicerticular abcess, pt is status post sigmoid resection, Hartman puch, end colostomy. Is appropriate to use with the above code the ~V44.3 or...
View ArticleSuperCoder on "g-tube button change in office"
The Mic-Key button is a low-profile gastrostomy tube that lies closer to the skin than a regular gastrostomy tube. In most cases, this type of change can be done manually and should be reported with...
View ArticleSuperCoder on "Incomplete Sigmoidoscopy?"
The physician inserts a scope which must pass the entire rectum, sigmoid colon. The physician then performs an exam of a portion of the descending colon up to the splenic flexure (26 cm–60 cm). Since...
View ArticleSuperCoder on "Coding Nursing Home Visits"
Specialists may report the nursing facility codes you mention. You also want to be sure to review the place of service code. Check out Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Chapter 12, Section 30.6.13 at...
View ArticleSuperCoder on "Rectal polyps 211.4 or 569.0"
The ICD-9 index under polyp, rectal states adenomatous are 211.4. Non-adenomatous rectal polyps are 569.0. Everything I find indicates that even though hyperplastic polyps are benign, they are not...
View ArticleSuperCoder on "post status"
The answer is no as these are included under Excludes of 998.83postoperative conditions in which no complications are present, such as:artificial opening status (V44.0-V44.9)Continue to code the wound...
View ArticleUser id : 13296 on "GI Cocktail"
I have a doctor that gave a "GI Cocktail". I am not exactly sure how this should be billed out. Thank You in Advance!
View ArticleUser id : 30146 on "Hep Flush"
Patient is seen in the office and has a hep flush of the port - Are we allowed to bill for the J codes for the heparin? I am looking at J1642 versus J1644 - We are not billing the Port Flush code...
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