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Coding for every specialty is different. For some specialties, you’ll find the in-depth knowledge and specific coding information you need to accurately and compliantly submit claims. Whether you prefer reading articles, downloading reference sheets and coding guides or watching a webinar, CodingIntel has what you need.

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E/M Services

  • E/M frequency data for family medicine and internal medicine
  • Category of code
  • History, Exam, MDM
  • Quick Coding Cheatsheet
  • Using time to select a code
  • Definitive guide to documenting time
  • Pre-operative clearance in primary care

Modifiers

  • Using modifier 25 cheat sheet
  • Modifier 24 and 25
  • Using modifier 33 cheat sheet
  • Modifier 51 or 59? How to know which to bill
  • Using modifier 59 cheat sheet
  • Modifier 95 for telemedicine

Procedures

  • Minor procedures
  • Lesion destruction tip sheet
  • Destruction of benign or pre-malignant lesions
  • Destruction of malignant lesions
  • Selecting CPT® codes for excision of skin lesions
  • Coding for excision of lesions
  • New codes for skin biopsy
  • Fine needle aspiration codes
  • Repair (closure) CPT® 12000-13160
  • Pessary billing and coding
  • GYN in the office – Coming Soon!

Preventive services

  • Preventive medicine services, Medicare
  • Guidelines for Billing Preventive Medicine Services and Split Visits
  • Billing for pap smear
  • Reporting a problem-oriented visit on the same day as a wellness visit
  • Wellness visits and prolonged care, G0513/G0514
  • G0101 pelvic and breast exam
  • Screening for STI
  • Screening and BCI in primary care, G0442
  • Intensive behavioral counseling for cardiovascular disease, G0446
  • Behavioral counseling for obesity, G0447
  • Age and wellness visits | Eligibility for Welcome to Medicare
  • Are you missing the initial annual wellness visit, G0438?

Diagnosis Coding

  • Screening for an existing condition
  • Diabetes coding in hierarchical condition coding (HCC)
  • Depression coding in hierarchical condition coding (HCC)
  • Diagnosis coding for biopsy sent for pathology
  • Coding for hypertension in the HCC system | Cheatsheet

Other E/M services

  • Performing services that increase primary care revenue
  • Billing physician services for hospice patients
  • Billing physician services for hospice patients | Cheat sheet
  • Nursing Facility Visits
  • Coding home visits | Cheat Sheet
  • Shared Visits, Medicare
  • Incident To Services, Medicare
  • 99483, cognitive assessment and care plan services
  • Checklist for 99483, cognitive assessment for dementia
  • Anticoagulation Management

Essential Resources

  • Everyday Coding
  • Care management guide
  • Risk adjusted diagnosis coding for medical practices
  • Screening codes guide
  • Preventive medicine services coding guide
  • Minor surgery coding guide
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E/M Services

  • E/M dematology cheatsheet
  • History, Exam and MDM
  • Using time to select a code
  • Describe the exam
  • E/M frequency data for dermatology

Procedures

  • 2019 biopsy codes
  • Coding for excision of lesions
  • Destruction of lesions, benign and pre-malignant
  • Destruction of lesions, malignant
  • Mohs Surgery
  • Shaving of epidermal or dermal lesions
  • Repair
  • Other dermatologic procedures
  • Coding multiple procedures | Examples with modifiers

Modifiers

  • Modifier 25
  • Modifier 51/59
  • Multiple procedure examples with modifiers
  • Modifier 58

Diagnosis coding

  • Skin screening
  • Diagnosis coding for dermatology

Prevention and screening

  • Skin cancer screeninng

Essential resources

  • Everyday Dermatology Coding
  • E/M cheatsheet
  • Destruction of lesion cheatsheet
  • Frequently used codes quick reference
  • Coding Skin Procedures in Dermatology, Family Practice and Urgent Care| Webinar
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E/M Services

  • E/M office cheatsheet
  • E/M hospital cheatsheet
  • History, Exam and MDM
  • Using time to select a code
  • Psychiatry specialty exam quick reference sheet
  • E/M frequency data for behavioral health services

CPT codes for behavioral health

  • Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation
  • Psychotherapy codes
  • Psychotherapy for patients in crisis
  • Interactive complexity | CPT 90785

Medication management

  • Essential documentation for medication management and psychotherapy
  • Medication management and Psychotherapy
  • Medication management and psychotherapy cheatsheet
  • Psychiatry Exam Cheat Sheet
  • Time based rules | Behavioral health services

Diagnosis coding

  • Overview of diagnosis coding for behavioral health services

Essential resources

  • Coding for Behavioral Health Services | Webinar
  • Coding Guide | Behavioral Health Services
  • Behavioral health and telemedicine
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Basics of E/M

  • E/M frequency data for surgical specialties
  • General surgery E/M cheatsheet
  • Definitive guide to documenting time
  • Are subsequent hospital or office visits prior to surgery billable?
  • Moderate or high MDM
  • Billing Admission and Subsequent Visits for Patient Having Surgery
  • Not all emergency surgery should be coded at the highest level
  • Critical Care for General Surgery and Trauma Surgeons
  • Teaching physician rules and surgical procedures
  • Can I get paid for evaluation prior to surgery?

Modifiers

  • Surgical modifiers
  • Using modifier 25 cheat sheet
  • Using modifier 33 cheat sheet
  • Using modifier 59 cheat sheet
  • Modifier 57
  • Co-surgery, Team surgery, Assistant at surgery
  • Modifier 51 or 59? How to know which to bill
  • Billing for multiple surgical procedures
  • Coding multiple procedures | Examples with modifiers

Procedures

  • Surgical coding for hernia repair
  • Coding for breast procedures
  • Procedure coding for colonoscopies
  • Excision of soft tissue, lipoma removal
  • Imaging guidance as part of a procedure
  • Fine needle aspiration
  • New codes for skin biopsy
  • Repair (closure) CPT® 12000-13160
  • Destruction of benign and pre-malignant lesions
  • Coding for destruction of malignant lesions
  • Selecting CPT® codes for excision of skin lesions
  • Lesion Destruction Tip Sheet

Preventive screening

  • Coding for screening colonoscopy

Diagnosis coding

  • Diagnosis coding for biopsy sent for pathology
  • Coding for biopsy | Should we wait for a pathology report?
  • ICD-10 coding for suspected cancer
  • Aftercare and follow-up: ICD-10 coding

Essential resources

  • Global Surgery Coding Guide
  • CPT® and HCPCS Code Modifiers Coding Guide
  • Minor Surgical Procedures Coding Guide

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Our mission is to provide accurate, comprehensive, up-to-date coding information, allowing medical practices to increase revenue, decrease coding denials and reduce compliance risk. That's what coding knowledge can do.

In 1988, CodingIntel.com founder Betsy Nicoletti started a Medical Services Organization for a rural hospital, supporting physician practice. She has been a self-employed consultant since 1998. She estimates that in the last 20 years her audience members number over 28,400 at in person events and webinars. She has had 2,500 meetings with clinical providers and reviewed over 43,000 medical notes. She knows what questions need answers and developed this resource to answer those questions. For more about Betsy visit www.betsynicoletti.com.

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