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    Wiki Sickle Cell with Crisis

    I do ED coding. When a patient comes in with sickle cell crisis in pain. Do we also code the pain, for instance, low-back pain. I can't seem to find any articles on this topic. TIA
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    Wiki Need help on STATUS INDICATORS, Please.

    The status indicators are in the HCPCS appendices. I forgot which one, my books are at home ,but the next appendix is payment indicators
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    Wiki Medicare toenail trimmings

    check your LCD on CMS. There are a lot of restrictions with billing toenail debridements.
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    Wiki Distal Femur Replacement

    Good afternoon, I had a provider perform a Distal Femur Replacement. "A prosthesis was created in order to make up for the bone that was removed." This was not a TKR. Would this be an unlisted code as it does not fulfill the requirements for a TKR? Patient came in for nonunion of fracture...
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    Wiki CPT Codes 93971 & 93922

    Hello, I am billing 93971 and 93922 on the same DOS with the same Dx code, M79.621. 99244 was also billed with no modifiers, different dx for the E&M. The 93922 is being denied by GHI stating they follow the CMS multiple cardiology coding rule. I saw somewhere that because the physiological...
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