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    Wiki Coders' Most Wanted Tools

    Hi AAPC Members, We seek to grow our library of free tools and would like your input. What tools would you find valuable? Is there a mobile app that would improve your work? Bring all of your suggestions to this thread and we'll see what our developers can do. Thank you for your feedback...
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    Wiki Need to know HPI & ROS

    We edited the original post to exclude the private information shared. This is very concerning to us. Please ensure this does not happen in the future or we will be forced to dismiss you from AAPC forums. Thank you.
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    Wiki Download the Official HEALTHCON App

    Hi Everyone! HEALTHCON is almost here and we'd like to encourage you to download the HEALTHCON mobile app. Get access to a schedule of events, speaker information, maps, and more… all in the palm of your hand. Downloading the app will also allow you to network with other HEALTHCON attendees...
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    Wiki Call For Suggestions: Webinar Topics

    Are you facing an issue in coding, billing, auditing, compliance, or practice management? Share your dilemma in this thread. We’ll discuss the top 10 problems in our upcoming free webinar, Top 10 Issues and Solutions. We appreciate your contributions. More details about the webinar will be...
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    Wiki National conference 2017

    To give some insight, conference attendance tends to dip when we move away from Orlando or Las Vegas. The majority of our members enjoy those venues, so we continue to go back. We try to appease everyone but it's difficult to do with such a large membership.
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    Wiki Case #20 Winner, Answer Key, & Rationale

    We can't thank you enough for playing. We learned a lot this first time through. It will be even better next time. Just so everyone knows, we'll announce the grand prize winners tomorrow (Wednesday).
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    Wiki Case #20 Winner, Answer Key, & Rationale

    Tracey Wessen is the winner of case #20. See below for answers and rationale. ANSWERS CPT: 33208, 33234, 33233 CPT Modifiers: none or 51 ICD-9: 996.61 RATIONALE In this case the provider removes a single lead system and replaces with a dual lead system. This procedure is not coded as an...
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    Wiki Case #19 Winner, Answer Key, & Rationale

    Abi L. wins again. The grand prize is going to come down to case #20, which is now live. See case #19 answers and rationale below. ANSWER CPT: 92928, 92928 CPT Modifiers: LD, RC ICD-9: 414.01 RATIONALE The provider performs stent placement in the LAD and the RCA. Angioplasty is included when...
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    Wiki Case #18 Winner, Answer Key, & Rationale

    Chelsi T. wins again! View case #18 answers and rationale below. ANSWERS CPT: 32650 CPT Modifiers: none or RT ICD-9: 511.9, 162.9 RATIONALE The provider performs a pleurodesis via VATS (video-assisted thoracic surgery). The lysis of adhesions is not reported separately. We accepted answers...
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    Wiki Case #15 Winner, Answer Key, & Rationale

    John, I'm trying to get an answer to your question for you. Thanks for your patience. Alex
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    Wiki Case #17 Winner, Answer Key, & Rationale

    727.42 is correct and we've updated it in the rationale. I apologize for the mistake. There was some confusion on our end and we had to bring in our chief coder.
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    Wiki Case #17 Winner, Answer Key, & Rationale

    Alexandra C. wins! Below is the answer key and rationale. ANSWER KEY CPT: 28285, 28285 CPT Modifiers: T6, T7 ICD-9: 735.4, 727.42 RATIONALE The provider performs a repair of hammertoe on two toes. The removal of the ganglion cyst is bundled with the hammertoe repair. If the procedures were...
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    Wiki Case #16 Winner, Answer Key, & Rationale

    Chelsi T. is our case #16 champion. See below for the answer key and rationale. ANSWER KEY CPT: 58554 CPT Modifiers: none ICD-9: 621.30 RATIONALE The provider performs a laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. The codes for hysterectomy are selected...
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    Wiki emails from coding challenge

    Thanks for the feedback, everyone. We tried a few things on the back end to help with this. I would recommend that you take a screen shot before submitting until you're sure your answer is getting through correctly.
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    Wiki emails from coding challenge

    Thanks for letting us know. We're going to run additional tests and see what we find. ATTENTION EVERYONE: How did it work out for you? Any discrepancies between what was entered and what came back in the email? Thanks, Alex
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