As surgical and medical services often include pre-procedure and post-procedure work, healthcare providers may perform multiple procedures during a single patient encounter. Multiple Procedure...
Coding Mitral Valve Prolapse – A Common Heart Valve Abnormality
Regarded as the most common heart valve abnormality, mitral valve prolapse (MVP) occurs when the flaps (leaflets) of the heart’s mitral valve do not close evenly, but bulge (prolapse) into the...
Coding Macular Degeneration – A Common Age-related Eye Condition
An eye problem can occur at any time. Some eye problems occur with age, while others may be linked to other serious conditions. In most cases, people ignore the early signs of vision problems,...
ICD-10 Codes to Document Lobar Pneumonia this COVID-19 Season
Pneumonia refers to an infection that inflames the air sacs in one or both lungs whereas Lobar pneumonia refers to a form of pneumonia that affects a specific lobe or lobes of the lung. Pneumonia is...
Report Narcolepsy Sleep Disorder with These Medical Codes
Narcolepsy is defined as a chronic neurological disorder that causes persistent sleepiness, sleep paralysis, hallucinations, and cataplexy. Sudden episodes of deep sleep can occur often even at...
Overcoming Key Challenges in Dental Billing and Coding
In today’s healthcare environment, dental practices face various billing and coding challenges. CDT codes are subject to frequent changes which are not always easy to understand. Billing dental...
ICD-10 Coding for Common Age-related Cognitive Disorders
The aging population in the U.S. is growing rapidly. The number of people aged 65 and above was 40.2 million in 2010 and is expected to double by 2050. As the population of older adults in the...
Three Common Diabetes-related Eye Diseases & Their ICD-10 Codes
Diabetes is a complex metabolic disease that affects the body’s ability to produce or use insulin effectively to control blood sugar (glucose) levels. Sugar levels build up in your blood if you...
Six Common Diabetes-related Skin Disorders & Their ICD-10 Codes
Diabetes is considered a fast-growing, chronic disease affecting millions of people across the globe. People with diabetes have high blood sugar levels, due to a lack of insulin or insulin not...