Happy Friday! Q&A of the Day: Q: Suppose a Medicare patient fell at home, causing neck, upper back and low back complaints, and he or she received chiropractic manipulative therapy code 98941 as the treatment. Are the subluxation codes still the odd numbered codes used in box 21 on the CMS-1500 claim form? And the secondary codes go in the even numbered spaces? Where would the V,X, Y codes go? A: The new claim for labels each code with the letters A-L rather than 1-4 to avoid confusion in the diagnosis point field, box 24D. We will have new codes to use, but the rules regarding primary subluxation codes and secondary neuromusculoskeletal diagnoses will not change. V, W, X, and Y codes (i.e. External cause codes from chapter 20) are not required, but we are encouraged to use them. If we do, they will go last, according to ICD-10 guidelines for that chapter.
Posted on: Fri, 09 May 2014 18:49:21 +0000
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