by Shea Lunt | Jul 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Haugen Academy’s Guide to the 2023 E/M Changes Shea Lunt, RHIA, CPC, CPMA, PMP Consultant Shea is a consultant for The Haugen Consulting Group with 11 years of health care industry experience. Shea has experience working on the professional fee side of coding,...
by Terri Reid | Jun 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Last year’s wound care webinars dove into the proper coding of wound care and offered several resources. We received so many fantastic follow-up questions that we felt it would be best to share and elaborate on them in another webinar. Questions surrounding...
by Kristi Pollard | Jun 15, 2022 | Webinar Q&As
Q: When a patient has sepsis due to COVID-19, is the sepsis code always sequenced first?A: No. Sequencing depends on whether the sepsis was present on admission and meets the definition of principal diagnosis. If a patient presented with a COVID-19 infection and...
by Kristi Pollard | Jun 15, 2022 | Webinar Q&As
Q: Can you code “mild” valve conditions from an echocardiogram report? A: Before assigning a code for a valvular condition, regardless of the documented severity, the coder should determine if the condition meets the definition of an additional diagnosis as outlined...
by Kristi Pollard | Jun 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Have you ever wondered about the default codes guideline for ICD-10-CM? Guideline I.A.18. states: A code listed next to a main term in the ICD-10-CM Alphabetic Index is referred to as a default code. The default code represents that condition that is most commonly...
