tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 39

CODING COACH: Apply These 5 Appeal-Winning Steps To Your Next Claim

It works: Empire Medicare covers rhinometry thanks to this coder's diggingIf you shudder at the sight of rhinometry denials, we've got the answers you need to glide through your next claim on your first try. Consider this acoustic rhinometry (AR) case study. One coder reveals the documentation she used to overturn an insurer's view of the test as experimental. Including this documentation with your claim could help you avoid a denial. The service: Physicians are using new diagnostic test to evaluate chronic rhinitis (472.0), notes physician David Plaxico with Allergy & Asthma Clinic of Macon in Georgia. Many...

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