Common coding issues

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• Tricky biopsy, excision, and repair coding scenarios 
• Destruction codes for pre-malignant and malignant lesions
• Malignant destruction coding
• Using destruction codes appropriately
• Biopsy vs. shave vs. destruction vs. excision
• Biopsy, shave, or excision?
• Flap, or not?
• Flaps, revisited
• Location, location, location
• Lip biopsies and repairs
• Complex repairs

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• How changes in a practices personnel impact E/M coding 
• Essentials of a medical record
• Understanding HPI elements
• Avoid downcoding by documenting a review of systems
• Coding E/M services

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• Medicare payment policies and how code values are calculated
• Billing Medicare for 'incident-to' services
• Coding per NCCI guidelines
• Tenets for locums
• Consultations: When is a consult a consult?
• What's the difference between major and minor procedures?
• Truth in billing
• Global surgery period
• Updated CPT manual a necessity
• Using V codes to indicate medical necessity

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• Picked for a ZPIC audit?
• Local coverage determinations: what are they good for?
• Appeal it
• Claim rejection
• Surviving a Medicare audit
• What are CCI edits?

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• ICD-10 idiosyncrasies
• ICD-10: And so it started
• Avoiding ICD-10 coding snafus
• The logic behind ICD-10

AAD ICD-10 resources

• ICD-10 resource center
• Ask a coding expert community
• Documentation requirements
• ICD-10 FAQs
  
• ICD-10 Quick Coder

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• Global surgical package, revisited (2016)
• Modifier 24, revisited
• The 59 modifier, modified
• When modifier 59 is not enough, part two
• When modifier 59 is not enough
• Correct use of modifier 59
• To 25 or not? Part one
• To 25 or not? Part two
• Can I use modifier 25 for a second visit on the same day?
• Modifier 25: A key focus of Medicare audits
• When do I use the 57 modifier instead of the 25 modifier?
• Correct use and abuse of modifier 24
• Proper use of procedural global modifiers 58, 59, and 79
• Appropriate use of modifier 58
• Global surgery period
• The most commonly used procedural modifiers
• Less commonly used procedural modifiers that can come in handy

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• Documenting Mohs surgery
• Mohs and 'slow Mohs'

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• Pathology billing and CMS
• Pathology particulars
• Using pathology codes
• Using pathology codes, part two
• When can I bill a biopsy in conjunction with another procedure?