I get paid the same for, say a 99214 encounter, with a dx of 250.00 as I do with a code of 250.60. I must either be doing something wrong or the ICD-9 code serves purely as an identifier for clinicians and epidemiologists (which I believe is why the coding system was devised in the first place.) I can document the complexity of my visit without ever mentioning whether I did the microfilament testing. If I am way out in left field, someone please educate me!!

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "