Coding Tips: Brush up Your ERCP Coding Skills With This Guidance

Intent and method guide you to appropriate codes.

When your gastroenterologist performs an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), you'll definitely report accurate codes if you observe specifically the reason and method used for the procedure. This coding refresher will help point you in the right direction.

Check Reason for the Procedure

Your gastroenterologist can perform an ERCP procedure with diagnostic or therapeutic intent. "A typical scenario for an ERCP is that the patient has continued epigastric pain in the ER, as an inpatient, or as an observation patient. A CT scan is done which is abnormal. Because of the abnormal CT, our physicians [...]

- Published on 2012-01-20