Welcome to Coffee with the Coder^®, our conversation with Paula Digby and her team to address issues, observations and questions for Health Information Management professionals, physicians, auditors, payors and students. You are invited to listen in for ten to twenty minutes every other Monday and to submit your favorite questions or comments for Coffee with the Coder^® To receive text notifications send an email to help@AQ-IQ.com with your request. We will text you in the hour prior to the start of the next episode.

During the “Insiders” portion, Ms Digby tells about chronic kidney disease. During the regular session she completes those ideas providing coding options for various documentation details. Next, she addresses whether Modifier -95 must be used on all telehealth video visits or is it only for Medicare and Medicaid? Another questioner wonders about the potential for using R codes on the IRF-PAI in a given scenario. Congratulations to Candace for winning the “mugging” for this episode.

Dial in for the next Episode on March 15th beginning at 10:10 am Eastern (7:10 am Pacific).