Archives for December 2017

New CPT^® Codes for 2018 | Anticoagulation Management and Education for Home INR Monitoring

CPT developed (and Medicare recognizes) two new codes for services related to home and outpatient international normalized ratio (INR) monitoring services in 2018. Here are the new codes | CPT® 93792, 93793 93792 Patient/caregiver training for initiation of home international normalized ratio (INR) monitoring under the direction of a physician or other qualified healthcare professional, […]

Can you Screen for an Existing Condition? | Diagnosis Coding for Lab Services

Sometimes, the hardest thing about coding for preventive services isn’t the visit at all. It’s the labs. Patients come in for an annual physical and believe that all of the lab work done that day or in preparation for that day will be covered as part of their preventive service. And we know what that […]

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Archives for December 2017

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