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2009
- November: Q&A - Diagnosis code for plastic surgeon scar revision, vaccine counseling with parental refusual to immunize, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale for the mother, and adjusting medication over the telephone
- November: AAP Pediatric Coding Newsletter™, Volume 5, Number 2 (November 2009), Quiz - Quiz for AAPC Continuing Education Units
- October: Are You Billing Your After-hours Services? (Online Exclusive) - Codes for evening and weekend hours and seeing patients on an emergent basis
- October: Reporting H1N1 Influenza Immunization Services Provided
to Patients Covered Under Commercial Insurance—Updated September 7, 2009 (Online Exclusive) - Policies for reporting influenza vaccine services
- October: AAP Pediatric Coding Newsletter™, Volume 4, Number 13 (October 2009), Quiz (Online Exclusive) - Quiz for AAPC Continuing Education Units
- October: Appeal, Appeal, Appeal: How to Write an Effective Appeal Letter (Online Exclusive) - Tips for appealing inappropriate denials
- September: AAP Pediatric Coding Newsletter™, Volume 4, Number 12
(September 2009), Quiz - Quiz for AAPC Continuing Education Units
- August: American Academy of Pediarics Care Plan Oversight
Encounter Worksheet (Online Exclusive) - Worksheet to calculate coordination of care services
- June: Should Your Electronic Medical Record System Code Your Evaluation and Management Services? (Online Exclusive) - EMR systems may code E/M visits at lower levels by not accounting for key components of the visit
- May: You Code It! (Online Exclusive) - Coding tips and teaching points for coding time spent in encounters, counseling, examination, review, and treatment
- May: ICD-9-CM and More CPT Errata (Online Exclusive) - Errata from the AMA
- April: Official ICD-9-CM Conventions: More Basics (Online Exclusive) - How to interpret and use ICD-9-CM instructional notes
- March: Physician Standby Services (Online Exclusive) - Physicians on standby and proper use of code 99360
- February: You Code It! (Online Exclusive) - Otitis media using new codes and referral and counseling for tympanostomy tube insertion
2008
- December: Denial Den (Online Exclusive) - Denials based on payers not recognizing modifiers and other codes
- November: You Code It! (Online Exclusive) - Using new 2009 ICD-9-CM codes for abnormal glucose tolerance, necrotizing enterocolitis, microscopic hematuria, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, abscess, and fever
- October: CMS Updates Its Policy for Payment
of Critical Care Services (Online Exclusive) - Updated policy from The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services effective for services provided starting July 1, 2008
- September: A Sneak Peek: New Pediatric
ICD-9-CM Codes for 2009 (Online Exclusive) - New codes effective to report services provided on or after October 1, 2008
- April: Q&A (Online Exclusive) - Hearing testing and overweight vs. morbidly obese
- April: You Code It! The Answers (Online Exclusive) - The Answers: Reporting of AUDIT alcohol disorder test and intervention plan discussion
- February: You Code It! The Answers (Online Exclusive) - The Answers: Reporting observation of counseling via one-way-mirror
2007
- September: You Code It! (Online Exclusive) - Prolonged services and nebulizer treatments for an 8-year-old with acute asthma exacerbation
- July: You
Code It! (Online Exclusive) - An office encounter and subsequent hospital admission the same day
- June: Q & A (Online Exclusive) - Fever secondary to vaccine, services pending pathology reports, spitting up, NDC numbers, cryptic tonsil, and HCPCS Level II modifiers
- May: Denial Den (Online Exclusive) - Advocating for correct vision and hearing screening codes
- April: Coding for Synagis (Online Exclusive) - Coding for Synagis (palivizumab), an immunoglobulin, differs from coding for vaccines and toxoids
- April: Q&A (Online Exclusive) - Help with coding for specific durations of face-to-face time, as well as advice on using the incision and drainage code
- March: Q&A (Online Exclusive) - Detailed coding guidelines for referrals, removal of foreign bodies, and blood tests
- February: Have You Noticed These 2007 Current
Procedural Terminology (CPT®) Code Changes? (Online Exclusive) - Important changes and additions for 2007: consultation, continuous inhalation, pulmonary stress testing, nitric oxide expired gas determination, lesion removal, and genetic counseling.
- January: Q & A (Online Exclusive) - CPT codes for palliative care in the NICU, consulting on end-of-life planning, coordination of care in the home, and ICD-9-CM codes for chronic aspiration, unrelated conditions, and limits to diagnosis codes on a claim
2006
- December: You Code It! (Online Exclusive) - Reporting home visit services
- December: Q & A (Online Exclusive) - Reporting initial hospital care services, near-SIDS or ALTE, and chief complaint
- November: Q&A (Online Exclusive) - Answers to pediatric coding questions related to oxygen administration, the use of code V70.0 versus V20.2, soy protein intolerance, and more
- November: You Code It! (Online Exclusive) - Provides coding examples for a 10-year-old new patient with a body mass index (BMI) calculated to be at the 95th percentile (obesity)
- November: Practice Management Tip (Online Exclusive) - Update on the results of the 5-year review of the Medicare physician fee schedule by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- October: Q&A (Online Exclusive) - Behavioral insomnia, progress notes on paper claims, and prophylaxis issues
- October: How to Code When the Child Is Not Present (Online Exclusive) - Tips for billing services such as discussing a child's illness with parents when the child is not present
- September: Diagnosis Coding: Why Services Are Provided (Online Exclusive) - Invaluable information for physicians and hospitals from the ICD-9-CM manual including details of the principles of coding and instructions for selecting codes
- August: Q&A (Online Exclusive) - Covers international adoption evaluation diagnosis codes, coding for home visits, and correct use of J codes
- July: Q&A (Online Exclusive) - Covering dehydration from gastroenteritis, dog bites, and expectant parent visits
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