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CPT Coding Guidelines Review: Injections and Infus...

This is a series of blogs about the importance of being familiar with CPT coding guidelines. Often there is extensive guidance preceding a subsection or range of codes for particular procedures, but coders are very busy so sometimes they jump right into the codes without taking time to review these guidelines, even though following or not following their direction could significantly affect the accuracy and comprehensiveness of coding. This series is designed to help you become familiar with guidelines for significant procedures that you might not be acquainted with but do impact coding. The presentations are short and meant to generate aware...

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    CPT Coding Guidelines Review: Injections...

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    Types of Medical Coding Audits

    Medical coding audits ensure the accuracy, completeness, and comp...

    Feb 04, 2025

    Root Operations Medical and Surgical

    ICD-10-PCS codes are used to report procedure performed in the in...

    ICD-10-CM Coding for Twin Pregnancy

    When coding for an obstetric patient, the presence of multiple ge...

    Coding Diabetes Mellitus with Presumed C...

    Diabetes is a systemic condition, meaning its presence has effect...

    ICD-10-PCS Body Part Value Selection for...

    Cerebral Anatomy When selecting ICD-10-PCS body part character va...

    CPT Coding Guidelines Review: Tissue Fla...

    This is a series of blogs about the importance of being familiar ...


    Medical Coding Tips

    Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) Release o...

    Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) which is CMS’ risk ...

    Coding Diabetes Mellitus with Presumed Conditions

    Diabetes is a systemic condition, meaning its presence has e...

    FY 2025 ICD-10-CM Code Updates

    The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released t...

    May 13, 2024

    Sequencing the Diagnosis of Sepsis

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    Annual Code Updates

    FY 2025 ICD-10-CM Code Updates

    The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released t...

    New ICD-10-CM Codes for Eating Disorders

    Recent updates to ICD-10-CM, effective October 1, 2024, have...

    FY 2025 ICD-10-PCS Code Updates

    The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released t...

    CY 2025 CPT and HOPPS Updates

    The 2025 updates to CPT and the Hospital Outpatient Prospect...

    Industry News

    Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) Release o...

    Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) which is CMS’ risk ...

    Coding Diabetes Mellitus with Presumed Conditions

    Diabetes is a systemic condition, meaning its presence has e...

    FY 2025 ICD-10-CM Code Updates

    The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released t...

    Debridement Coding in ICD-10-PCS

    Debridement is the removal of dead, damaged, or infected tis...

    Covid-19 Coding

    Covid-19 Diagnosis Coding Common Scenarios

    With the proliferation of COVID-19 cases, we thought we woul...

    Z Code Reporting for COVID-19

    Updates from 1/19/21 in green font.

    Update - Coding COVID-19 When the Test is Negative

    Updates as of 1/01/21: As you may know, assigning the approp...

    AHA COVID FAQs for ICD-10-PCS & New Technology

    Coders are instructed, at this time, to follow the AHA Frequ...


    Query Tips

    Oct 11, 2023

    Query Tip: Avoiding a Leading Query – Don't Be Dir...

    "A leading query is one that is not supported by the clinica...

    Aug 23, 2019

    Query Tip: Writing a Query Question – Simple and C...

    The question asked in a physician query may be the most impo...

    Mar 04, 2024

    The Many Meanings of "Unable to Determine"

    Queries written in a multiple-choice format include a short ...

    Sep 19, 2023

    How to Query for Pathology Results

    Tissue findings interpreted by a pathologist are not equival...

    Company News

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    Health Information Associates (HIA) is excited to announce t...

    Health Information Associates to Showcase Expertis...

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    Introducing HIA’s Cloud-Based Audit Software, Atom...

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