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Medical Insurance 7th Edition by Amy Blochowiak, Joanne Valerius, Nenna Bayes, Cynthia Newby
Edition 7ISBN: 978-1259683077Medical Insurance 7th Edition by Amy Blochowiak, Joanne Valerius, Nenna Bayes, Cynthia Newby
Edition 7ISBN: 978-1259683077 Exercise 4
Auditing Linkage
A. Are the following procedure and diagnostic codes appropriately linked? If not, what is (are) the error(s)?
B. A forty-year-old established female patient is having an annual checkup. During the examination, her physician identifies a lump in her left breast. The physician considers this a significant finding and performs the key components of a problem-focused E/M service. These four codes and modifier should be reported. To which code is the modifier appended?
CPT codes: 99212, 99396
ICD codes: Z00.00, N63
Modifier: 25
A. Are the following procedure and diagnostic codes appropriately linked? If not, what is (are) the error(s)?
B. A forty-year-old established female patient is having an annual checkup. During the examination, her physician identifies a lump in her left breast. The physician considers this a significant finding and performs the key components of a problem-focused E/M service. These four codes and modifier should be reported. To which code is the modifier appended?
CPT codes: 99212, 99396
ICD codes: Z00.00, N63
Modifier: 25
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Case 6.1A
1. Codes are correctly linked...
Medical Insurance 7th Edition by Amy Blochowiak, Joanne Valerius, Nenna Bayes, Cynthia Newby
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