Comments on: Medical Coding Expert Doug Palmer Talks About the Future: Computer-Assisted Coding, and ICD-10

By: Mary Pat Whaley

Mary Pat Whaley — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:18:01 +0000

Hello Mary,

More context is needed here. Does the physician draw a clinical correlation between the two? If not, the coding would be rather straightforward according to ICD-9 Indexing. Perhaps an excerpt from the documentation (of course without any type of PHI) would allow for a more definitive answer.

Best wishes,

Doug Palmer, BA, CCS-P
d.palmer@phys-assist.com

By: mary s.

mary s. — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:34:10 +0000

Hello Mary Pat,

I have a question, (confused) If the patient was diagnosed with Left Temporal encephalomalacia after have surgery of removal of a chondroblastoma. what diagnosis code do I use. Help…….

By: Mary Pat Whaley

Mary Pat Whaley — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:02:25 +0000

Hi Simone,

Good luck in October and congratulations for taking this step!

Best wishes,

Mary Pat

By: Simone

Simone — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:41:25 +0000

Thank you sir,

your article was very informative. I’m a newbie in this coding field and studying for the CCS exam this October 2012