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Neck dissection - as complicated to code as it looks. Unfortunately, the vocabulary is just as complicated. Luckily, next time you're staring at an operative report that contains a neck dissection, you'll be armed with the knowledge you need to determine what CPT code - or combination of codes - to use.Join coding expert Jen Godreau for this diagnostic look at dissection vocabulary. In this 1 hour audio conference, Jen will teach you the correct modifier to obtain staged dissection pay and bust myths that could land you with the wrong ICD-9 neoplasm diagnosis.
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Here's what you will learn:
- You can’t pick cervical lymphadenectomy codes (38720-38724) based on your ENT’s documented level -- zoom in on this instead.
- The secret tool you need to get paid for bilateral RND.
- Navigate the neoplasm table to nail down the correct ICD-9 code. (Not all cancer cases map to the same malignant diagnosis.)
- This modifier unlocks RND pay during RND global.
- Glossectomy + lymphadenectomy; total laryngectomy + bilateral RND: What combos does CCI allow?
- Hone in on this detail before coding lymph-removal with thyroidectomy.
- 3 Situations that allow separately billing RND/MRND.
- Laryngectomy + MRND: 1 code or 2?
Who should attend? ENT and Plastics Coders, physicians, office managers, and educators who are performing, documenting, and/or auditing head and neck surgery cases
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- Flexible enrollment. Scheduling conflict? No problem. This session is also available on CD.
- Complimentary attendee package, including the speaker's complete presentation handouts. Keep this quick reference tool close by for future use.
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Jennifer Godreau, BA, CPC, CPEDC, specializes in medical coding policy for pediatrics, otolaryngology including allergy and audiology, family/internal medicine and pulmonology. She has a bachelors of arts in English from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, a certificate of professional coding (CPC), and is a certified pediatric coder.
Jen is currently a managing editor for The Coding Institute where she has written Pediatric Coding Alert and Otolaryngology Coding Alert for seven years, as well as several other coding publications. While researching articles, she consults with physician advisors and policy makers in the American academies of Audiology, Family Practice, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, and the associations for Allergy and Speech-language and Hearing.
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