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tci Part B Insider - 2008 Issue 35
Part B Coding: Sidestep These 3 X-Ray Scenario Pitfalls
Supercharge your skills by knowing which guidelines to keep handy.
Medical coders must be masters of all modalities, but even coding for the long-established x-ray can require you to handle new situations and apply complicated coding rules. Here's the how-to on three real-life x-ray scenarios provided by coders like you.
Scenario 1: Your physicians routinely perform AP, lateral, obliques, and spot views that you code using 72110 (Radiologic examination, spine, lumbosacral; minimum of four views). If one doctor also performs flexion and extension views --" in addition to the other views --" for a particular patient, should you report...
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