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Billing/Coding

Coding Corner Question: April

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Test your coding knowledge for a patient with sacrolitis and ankylosing spondylitis who gets a sacroiliac joint injection during an office visit

Coding Corner Question: February

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Test your coding knowledge for an office visit for a 51-year-old female patient with osteoarthritis in her right knee who returns for a follow-up with the physician assistant six weeks after she received an intraarticular corticosteroid injection in her knee

Coding Corner Answer: February Coding Challenge

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For an established patient visit with an established diagnosis, along with a new diagnosis, the visit should be coded as 99214 and billed under the PA’s national provider identification (NPI) number

Coding Corner Question: January

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Test your coding knowledge for identifying the determining factors for determining the level of risk in the medical decision making for a patient with rheumatoid arthritis.

Coding Corner Answer: January Coding Challenge

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Identifying multiple determining factors—including prescription drug management, drug therapy, and chronic illness with severe exacerbation, progression, or side effects to treatment—in determining the level of risk in the medical decision making for a patient with rheumatoid arthritis