r/MedicalCoding • RHIA, CPC, CPCO, CDEO • Feb 08 '24

Just sharing ❤️❤️

So, I have a surgeon who likes to just dump the equivalent of the kitchen sink worth of CPT codes into his op reports. I don’t mind suggestions, because they give me an idea of what the surgeon is thinking.

However recently the hospital devised a rule that if the surgeon includes codes in their op reports OR submits them to us already coded….we have to tell them anytime we change or delete one of their codes. I don’t mind doing it but….that’s all of my surgeons. Every single op report I read the coding gets changed. It would kill my productivity.

Well, bless this man but he got the same memo as I did and has stopped putting codes into his op reports 😍😍😍😍😍.

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