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    Wiki Gyn Preventive visit and separate e&m for sterilization

    I have been seeing separate e&m visits where the doctor is billing for the request for sterilization, saying this is separate from preventive care because it is a procedure, providing the risks of procedure, providing consent etc. sometimes they are documenting the extra time from the...
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    Wiki Intra operative consult for accidental injury ICD 10

    Yes that is what I am saying. Thank you for clarifying on the S codes. I think I may have been trained wrong and never could find anything in regards to this. It does make sense to now to use the accidental injury of bowel during other procedure, I guess that does say it was done during another...
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    Wiki Intra operative consult for accidental injury ICD 10

    I wanted to add that the consulting physician is a separate specialty. Please advise what icd 10 code series this physician should use when they find a laceration/injury and do a repair. Example: K91.7X verses "S" series icd 10 laceration. I'm thinking the "S" series because the surgeon doing...
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    Wiki Intra operative consult for accidental injury ICD 10

    My understanding is that when a physician is requested for a possible injury and they do a repair, say for a laceration that occurred, that physician would code the dx as the S series for laceration and the operative note where the laceration occurred would report the accidental injury code but...
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    Wiki ANOSCOPY & E&M svc done same day-CAN ANYONE

    Hello, I wanted to know if you got any additional responses on this. I feel the same way that if a scope is to look in my ear it would not be separately reportable. I have not been billing the anoscopy but I'm being told the anoscopy is diagnostic and aided in the decision making. Thoughts!! My...
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    Wiki 29581 coding help

    Coder Did you ever get an answer on whether or not you can bill the compression system and the E&M on the same day?
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