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Money-Making Procedures: 5 Principles Take the Tricky Out of FBR Coding

Published in Family Practice Coding Alert, August 2010

Snag $100 more for removal from foot – Supercoder.com shows you how.
If you automatically look to 10120 when your FP removes a tick, splinter, or other foreign body from a patient’s foot, you could be forfeiting almost $100 per claim.
Better: You won’t shortchange your physicians on foreign body removal (FBR) provided you follow these guidelines.
1. Before Using 10120, Check for Incision
Don’t assume foreign body removal is a shoe-in for CPT integumentary section code 10120 (Incision and [...]


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Published in Family Practice Coding Alert, August 2010
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