tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2017 Issue 1

Terminology: Study New Guidelines to Discover Dialysis Circuit Designations

Check out code-level notes, too. Despite similarities to previous dialysis circuit guidelines, you need to engage some changes to the 2017 guidelines, as well as some new text notes, to make sure you know how to use the new codes discussed in the preceding article. With so many instructions, a refresher on all the rules, even ones that aren’t new, is a good idea. Read on to get updated definitions of the dialysis circuit and its segments, as well as helpful information about lower extremity versus upper extremity circuits. Grasp ‘Circuit’ Parts and Definitions The “dialysis...

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