tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 17

Part B Coding Coach: 4 Tips Improve Your Respiratory Diagnosis Coding

Ensure payment with these ICD-9 coding strategies Are you up to speed on 2004's new and revised asthma and bronchitis ICD-9 codes? If not, your physician could be losing deserved reimbursement. Follow four tips offered by coding experts to boost your ICD9 coding accuracy.   Medicare focused on asthma for many of its updates because asthma is a high-profile condition for patients, physicians and payers, says Anthony M. Marinelli, MD, FCCP, chairman of the American Thoracic Society's Clinical Practice Committee. CMS and other carriers may use the data from ICD-9 reports to adjust payments or develop quality guidelines. That's...

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