Emergency Department Coding & Reimbursement Alert

Analyze the coding and reimbursement environment before assigning codes for smoking or substance abuse counseling.

While a busy emergency department is not the ideal venue for lengthy preventive care counseling sessions, but it can present a good opportunity to have a discussion about contributing factors that may have brought a patient to the ED for treatment. Following the advice below to ensure any behavior modification service your ED physician provides gets properly reported.

For example: Consider a patient who presents with injuries caused by driving while intoxicated or a home accident involving themselves or others that was directly related to altered status [...]

- Published on 2011-09-20