Coding Articles Archive
Click here to browse through a Table of Contents of coding articles that have been extracted from current and past issues of AAOS Now (formerly the AAOS Bulletin). These articles have been developed by AAOS staff, members of the Coding Coverage & Reimbursement Committee, as well as outside coding experts.
Browse though the Table of Contents of articles relating to coding that have been extracted from recent issues of AAOS Now (formerly the AAOS Bulletin). These articles have been developed by AAOS staff, members of the Coding Coverage and Reimbursement Committee, as well as outside coding experts.
Articles: Table of Contents
- Arthroscopy
- Diagnosis Coding
- It pays to learn diagnosis coding
- Accurately code external causes of injury
- Switching to ICD-10: the impact on physicians
- Evaluation and Management (E & M)
- Practices must review E/M coding Orthopaedists must know profile; payers use it for audits
- HCFA, AMA tell how to code for E/M
- Proposed E/M guidelines favor menu of examinations
- Be careful in coding consult or referral
- Medicare clarifies rules on consults
- Confused over consultation codes?
- 2006 E/M code change overview
- A simple system for coding E/M services
- Increase reimbursement with electronic billing
- P4P: Participation now may pay off later
- Making documentation problems history
- Answers to your coding questions
- Frequently asked coding questions
- Place of service affects your reimbursement
- Are you an E/M outlier?
- Foot and Ankle
- Fracture Care
- How to code for traumatic fractures
- Understanding fracture care coding
- Coding for closed treatments of fractures
- Hand and Wrist
- HCPSC
- HCFA creates new HCPCS codes for 2000
- Don’t forget injectable medications
- HCFA tells new cast codes
- The 51 new Q codes for cast supplies
- New cast supply codes generate questions
- Hip and Knee
- 10 new Orthopaedic CPT codes
- Accurately code hip fractures
- Chondroplasty coding and documentation
- Accurately code knee procedures
- Introducing five new knee codes
- Coding hip procedures
- When hip revision surgery is not hip revision surgery
- The ins and outs of coding for hip resurfacing
- Reporting knee revision surgery correctly
- Integumentary
- 3 new CPT codes set for debridement
- Established for open fractures and dislocations 11 new microsurgical codes in 1997 CPT
- Generic code 15755 replaced by 4 families of codes Debridement code depends on procedure
- Miscellaneous Coding
- Staff must know coding process
- Medicare increases coding detection
- Why accurate CPT codes are important
- Accurate coding vital to your practice
- How to access Federal Register
- 1999 CPT book has many changes
- Coders must put ‘why’ into records
- Get paid for ‘unlisted’ procedures
- Treating 2 problems needs 2 reports
- Compensation possible for preoperative H&P
- CMS auditing systems probe Medicare claims
- New, revised, deleted codes set for 2002
- AMA CPT Symposia Addresses six issues
- Frequently asked coding questions
- CPT 2002
- 2003 coding changes
- Common coding questions & answers
- Advice on selecting the correct code
- RVUs and you
- OIG puts fraud and abuse under watch
- Are you ready for 2006?
- Getting your share of CMS P4P 2007 bonus payments
- Facts and FAQs on the PQRI
- PQRI: A way to get more out of Medicare
- Physician assistant “FAQs”
- Hiring a PA? Here’s how to get paid
- Second look: Regulatory/Reimbursement
- Category III code updates
- Introducing the 2009 CPT code updates
- CPT codes updated in 2009
- Answers to your coding questions
- Is your practice audit ready?
- Hammering out coding challenges
- Coding of new technology and devices
- Reporting complications doesn’t need to be complicated
- Taking the pain out of injection coding
- Modifiers
- Solving dilemma of -62, -82 modifiers
- HCFA eyes use -25 with E/M
- Coding when there is more than one surgeon
- Using modifier AS for surgical assist services
- Managing modifier for surgical assistant services
- Modifier changes for 2008
- Additional modifier changes for 2008
- Ins and outs of modifier 58
- Pain Management
- Pediatric
- 10 new Orthopaedic CPT codes
- Coding for pediatric spine deformities
- Coding for pediatric spine deformity procedures
- Radiology
- Coding for evaluating another’s x-rays
- How to get credit for comprehensive ROS
- New codes added, revised in 2001 CPT
- Medicare’s rules on diagnostic imaging
- Professional interpretation of x-rays
- Shoulder & Elbow
- Coding shoulder procedure
- Accurately code shoulder procedures
- Shoulder arthroscopy: why the deep discounts?
- Shoulder coding: Questions, answers & clarifications
- Spine
