Tag Archives: diabetes

Recognized Diabetic Manifestations

Even people who know only the basics of risk adjusted payments know that there is a hierarchy in coding diabetes.  Diabetes with no complications contributes about two-thirds less in funding when compared to diabetes with a complication.  The unfortunate reality … Read Full Post

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MRA & The New Patient Visit

In our years of reviewing charts, we’ve observed new PCP visits where the clinician assigns diagnoses based on the medications the patient is taking, adds them to the problem list and includes them in the assessment of the visit.  Let’s … Read Full Post

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ADA Changed Diagnostic Guidelines

From time to time, it’s important to revisit established diagnostic criteria for frequently encountered conditions because medicine evolves.  One such change occurred in the diagnostic guidelines for diabetes.  The standard was primarily one A1c of 6.5% or two fasting blood … Read Full Post

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Combination Codes

One interesting and time-saving feature of ICD-10-CM codes is the combination code.  Just like Burger King, McDonald’s and other fast food eateries, the world of coding has combos; the food-oriented ones save us money and the coding combos save us … Read Full Post

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What We’re Reading – Five ways to fight diabetes

According to the National Institutes of Health, people can lower their risk of diabetes by doing five things: following a healthy diet, having a healthy weight, being physically active, limiting drinking, and not smoking. According to the researcher, “Each healthy … Read Full Post

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Documenting Manifestations: “Connect” with an Accurate Payment

Over the years, we’ve seen it all when it comes to physician documentation.  One physician in a group insisted that if she wrote all the conditions on one line, they were connected.  Her partner’s charting habit was using slash marks … Read Full Post

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