by kkluglein | May 4, 2021 | Blog
I remember a time when assigning ICD-9 procedure codes when we always picked up blood transfusions. With the implementation of ICD-10-PCS, this was one of the procedures that most hospitals phased out. The rationale for this decision in most organizations stemmed...
by Kristi Pollard | Apr 19, 2021 | Blog, Tips & Expertise
Q: We were originally educating the coders at our facility to code removal of internal fixation device from the joint per Coding Clinic 2Q 2017 pgs. 23-24 however a correction was issued in Coding Clinic 2Q2019 that states to use body part of vertebrae. But you’re...
by Kristi Pollard | Aug 4, 2020 | Blog, Covid News
It has been a wild year for coding updates so far and we haven’t even implemented the codes for fiscal year 2021 yet. I will be detailing those code changes in two information-packed webinars scheduled to air later this month, but an August 1, 2020 release is one...
by Mary Bort | Apr 14, 2021 | Blog, Tips & Expertise, Uncategorized
Q: Most of the time my provider doesn’t tell me if a fracture is displaced, so based on what you said early in your presentation, the default is displaced. Is that correct? A: yes, that’s absolutely correct. I would however try to encourage them to document this...
by kkluglein | Apr 1, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized
I remember back in the day when I first started coding, I had no clue what some of the different fracture types meant or even looked like. (Keep in mind this was a gazillion years ago and we did not use Google or the internet – we didn’t even have them for that...
by kkluglein | Feb 15, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized
Q: I have a physician who performed a conversion of a patellofemoral joint to a total knee. He replaced the patellar polyethylene and implanted a total knee replacement. What would be the appropriate code for this? Would this be reported as 27447 or do we need to use...
