Terry A. Fletcher, CPC, CCC, CEMC, CCS, CCS-P, CMSCS, CMC, ACS-CA, SCP-CA 
Conquer key coding challenges for pacemakers and defibrillators to ensure that you support medical necessity for implants and correctly report codes in ICD-10-CM
Getting paid for pacemaker implants just got tougher - o n July 6, Medicare implemented a restrictive new national coverage policy for single and dual-lead pacemakers that only allow for a short list of diagnoses. Physicians are required to add the KX modifier to pacemaker implant codes to avoid denials.
Practices must also know when it is appropriate to code a primary versus a secondary preventive indication for their defibrillator implants. These are just some of the reasons that billing for pacemakers and defibrillators are so complicated and documentation or diagnosis coding mistakes so easy to make.
Get the tools and strategies you need to prevent denials and ensure appropriate payment. Through the expert guidance at this webinar, you’ll g ain a clear understanding of the typical errors practices make that can lead to expensive denial of claims and how to avoid them . Learn strategies to ensure that you support medical necessity and correctly report payable diagnosis codes in ICD-10-CM.
Join coding expert and Cardiology Coder’s Pink Sheet technical editor Terry Fletcher during this 60-minute training to:
- Understand Medicare’s tough new coverage rules for single- and dual-lead pacemaker implants
- Learn how to code device revision versus replacement and other tricky pacemaker and defibrillator procedures
- Ensure that you are reporting the Q0 and KX modifiers appropriately and supporting medical necessity in ICD-9 and ICD-10 for device implants (e.g., primary versus secondary preventive indications)
- Gain strategies to manage other obstacles to payment, such as getting prior approval for patient to be in the device implant registry
- Guard against payer scrutiny of dual-chamber pacemaker implants, for example, if your physician is implanting preventive second leads
- Find out how and when you can code for multiple services at the same encounter and new coding options for pocket revisions
Sign up for this webinar today to overcome coding challenges, prevent denials and secure full reimbursement.
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