Re: [Hardhats-members] Cross reference between ICD-9 and CPT codes

[Gregory Woodhouse]

On Jun 15, 2006, at 4:59 AM, Mike Schrom wrote: CMS, and every commercial payor, already has software to do that, which  IS used to determine payments. It's deeply flawed, for example, CPT  31575, examination of the larynx is not payable with ICD-9-CM 478.32,  vocal cord paralysis. How, do you know that the vocal cord is paralyzed  unless you examine it? Mike Does it actually say vocal cord paralysis? Maybe someone (who isn't a doctor) looked up "vocal cord" in a book and decided it wasn't a synonym for larynx. Out of curiosity, I picked up a linguistics text I happened to have handy, "The Speech Chain"  (2nd ed.) by Peter B. Denes and, Elliot N. Pinson. On p. 49 there's an anatomy diagram with arrows labeled "larynx" and "vocal cords" pointing to ever so slightly different locations! Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Metaphors be with you.

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