General Surgery Coding Alerts that determine your revenue cycle

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General Surgery Coding Alerts that determine your
revenue cycle
For a surgeon or medical practitioner, group
practice or clinic, the insights on how specialty
medical billing works can be a scary task. A
billing agent that that does not bill the
sittings correctly misses deadlines, or does
inadequate follow-up can have an abysmal effect
on your facilities bottom line. However, a
well-organized billing service cannot only
simplify and improve your practice but also
greatly improve both your income-cycle and cash
flow. At Medical Billers and Coders our
specialist team is well trained in general and
specialty surgery charging. For a general surgery
practice to be financially successful, special
attention must be paid to a number of factors,
right from patient information and coding the
full scope of services to following the Current
Procedural Terminology codes and the Healthcare
Common Procedure Coding System guidelines. Keep
in mind that insurance provider payments are
largely determined by these categories, and it is
imperative that all information and codes are
entered correctly by the billing team. Avoid
denials and reckless audit risks Our general
surgery coding personnel will strengthen your
practice with timely guidance to overcome the
challenges of general surgery coding updates that
threaten your claims and compliance success.  
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General Surgery Coding Alerts that determine your
revenue cycle

• Here are the updated General Surgery Coding
  alerts that determine your RCM
• Capture the severity of rectal abscess with the
  K61 code set
• Use specific codes for cholangitis
  (K83.0)including changed combination codes
• Forget the old post-procedure infection codes and
  use the new T81.4 series instead
• K35 Apply the newly expanded code set for
  appendicitis
• K82 Grab the right gall bladder code every time
• N35 Unblock your confusion over urethral
  stricture codes
• Avoid common errors in diagnosis documentation
  and surgery coding
• Change your ICD-10 ways to maximize CDI efforts
  and satisfy MIPS
• CPT 28820 Amputation toe metatarscphalangeal
  joint
• CPT 60240 Thyroidectomy total or complete
• CPT 15271-15278 Skin replacement surgery
  subsection
• CPT 15777 Bilateral breast procedures
• CPT 37619 ligation of inferior vena cava

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General Surgery Coding Alerts that determine your
revenue cycle
Its vital that you improve your understanding of
what the documentation must say to support each
ICD-10 surgery code. Spend some time for gaining
knowledge. This will pay off all year long by
maximizing reimbursement and clinical
documentation improvement efforts. Initially in
2019 ICD-10-CM code list introduces approximately
500 diagnosis code changes, with well over 100 in
the general surgery category. To prevent
miscoding, a parenthetical was added to the CPT
code set that instructs not to report 29581 in
conjunction along with codes for treatment of
incompetent veins (36465, 36466, 36468, 36470,
36471, 36473, 36474, 36475, 36476, 36478, 36479,
36482, and 36483) for the same extremity.  Also,
note that the code 29581 should not be reported
for simply wrapping the lower extremity with
elastic bandages. With more than 135 ICD-10-CM
changes and 69 CPT updates, general surgery
coders are among the most impacted in 2019. You
need to traverse changes for eyelid neoplasm,
post-procedural infection, appendicitis, FNA,
allograft or replacement or removal of the
permanent leadless pacemaker, and more. Your
practice stands to lose significant pay if you
dont have a solid grasp on the requirements for
coding each, as well as a keen understanding of
the many code options from which to choose. In
fact, among practices that frequently perform
these procedures, its not uncommon to accrue
significant annual loss, sacrificing 20 to 100
per lesion.
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General Surgery Coding Alerts that determine your
revenue cycle
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