2008 Cardiology Coder's Coding Survival Guide

Do You Separately Report Cardio Procedures When You Shouldn’t? Get Help from the Experts

Make sure you’re on top of your coding game with The Coding Institute’s 2008 Cardiology Coder’s Survival Guide, an easy-to-read, how-to manual tailored specifically to help you select the appropriate cardiology code every time. Each chapter is packed with practical tips, strategies and tricks of the trade that you can try immediately to benefit your practice.

This must-have guide breaks down and discusses your most frequently coded major interventions and diagnostic procedures, and outlines all the steps you should take to report them accurately.  Here are just a few of the topics you’ll learn about:

• Are you overlooking reporting this AAA repair service? This guide shows you op note keywords that scream for separate payment. 
• Reporting catheter placement + angioplasty: This bundle may surprise you.
• Using arterial graft codes just for that? Think again.
• 412 as dx 2: Is it a “No-no?” These scenarios take the mystery out of coding MI episodes of care.
• When your cardiologist places a prosthesis, you better know what type it is. 4 Steps make finding the right AAA repair code a snap.
• 1 CABG code or 2? The choice is easy when you count this detail.
• Your cardiologist documents only “MI” — Spot these details, and you have all the info you need to skip the unspecified code.
• Just because you have two claims for bilateral selective catheter placement doesn’t mean you’ll code them the same way. Get the low down on payer requirements.
• And much more!

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