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2009
  • November: Reporting services performed by 2 hospitalists for an inpatient
  • October: Test your skill with 2010 codes
  • August: Evaluation of child for accidental or non-accidental anogenital trauma
  • July: Level of examination for a 3-year-old patient with diarrhea
  • May: Coding tips and teaching points for coding time spent in encounters, counseling, examination, review, and treatment
  • February: Otitis media using new codes and referral and counseling for tympanostomy tube insertion
  • January: A patient's worsening cellulitis leading to outpatient hospital treatment and a visit to the facility to assess and review



2008
  • November: Using new 2009 ICD-9-CM codes for abnormal glucose tolerance, necrotizing enterocolitis, microscopic hematuria, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, abscess, and fever
  • August: Coding a consultation with parents of a child with developmental and behavior problems without the child present
  • July: Low milk supply and postnatal depression
  • May: Counseling for stopping smoking
  • April: Questions: Reporting of AUDIT alcohol disorder test and intervention plan discussion
  • April: The Answers: Reporting of AUDIT alcohol disorder test and intervention plan discussion
  • February: Questions: Reporting observation of counseling via one-way-mirror
  • February: The Answers: Reporting observation of counseling via one-way-mirror
  • January: Reporting administration of Tdap instead of DTaP vaccine



2007
  • September: Prolonged services and nebulizer treatments for an 8-year-old with acute asthma exacerbation
  • August: A child protection team consultation of a 15-month-old with a head injury
  • July: An office encounter and subsequent hospital admission the same day
  • June: How to report services by an attending physician for review of findings by telephone with a resident and face-to-face service the following day
  • May: Reporting vision and hearing screens in conjunction with a preventive medicine visit
  • April: Reporting services performed by two physicians on the same date
  • March: Reporting visits of various durations



2006
  • December: Creating a care plan for a patient with diabetes
  • December: Reporting home visit services
  • November: Provides coding examples for a 10-year-old new patient with a body mass index (BMI) calculated to be at the 95th percentile (obesity)
  • October: Services provided to twins by multiple physicians
  • September: Avoid confusing the initial date of service with the admission date or date of birth; always code from the physician's perspective, not the patient's
  • August: Reporting release or lysis of adhesions
  • July: Practice coding for developmental and behavioral services
  • June: Using codes 99201-99205
  • May: Sharpen your skills for using codes 99211-99215
  • April: Four coding scenarios related to vaccines and vaccine administration
  • March: Using 2 E/M services codes for care provided to a child the same day
  • February: Coding of IV hydration and IV infusion that is therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic
  • January: Reporting services performed by a specialist; remember the "3Rs" of consultations



2005
  • December: How to code concurrent neonatal critical care provided to a single patient on a single date of service by more than one physician
  • November: Codes for evaluating hyperbilirubinemia and breastfeeding supervision
  • October: Codes for using a metered-dose inhaler for acute exacerbation of asthma
  • September: Two ways to code removal of sutures (99211 and S0630)





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