tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2017 Issue 12

CPT® 2018: Change Anticoagulant Management Coding

Don't miss these code addition and deletions. Surgical treatment can be complicated by a patient on anticoagulant medication such as Coumadin. If your surgeon becomes involved in anticoagulation medical management, you need to learn a new way toreport the service. Read on to get a grasp of CPT®  2018 changes that will impact how you code these claims. These are Out CPT® 2018 deletes the following two codes that described anticoagulant management services: 99363 (Anticoagulant management for an outpatient taking warfarin, physician review and interpretation of International Normalized Ratio (INR) testing, patient instructions, dosage adjustment (as needed), and...

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