medical coding – Posture Practice https://posturepractice.com Research & Training Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:15:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://posturepractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cropped-posture-certification-32x32.jpg medical coding – Posture Practice https://posturepractice.com 32 32 Medicare & Chiropractic Coding https://posturepractice.com/medicare-chiropractic-coding/ https://posturepractice.com/medicare-chiropractic-coding/#respond Fri, 10 May 2019 18:44:12 +0000 https://posturepractice.com/?p=14182 Read More]]> Heads-up – Chiropractors seeing Medicare Patients
On May 7, 2019 Medicare updated their information on chiropractic coding and their 2018 program that measured errors in payments. This is important because Medicare reported a 41 percent error rate on chiropractic fee-for-service claims (mostly due to documentation issues).

Here’s what they said:

Overview and insight into what Medicare is looking for, see

For info on using the AT modifier, see
1602: Use of the AT modifier for Chiropractic Billing (New Information Along with Information in MM3449)

For more billing info and assistance, see
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]]> https://posturepractice.com/grow-your-practice-with-posture-assessment/feed/ 0 ICD-10 and Posture Syndromes https://posturepractice.com/icd-10-and-posture-syndromes/ https://posturepractice.com/icd-10-and-posture-syndromes/#respond Wed, 06 Jan 2016 12:06:43 +0000 http://posturepractice.com/?p=7981 Read More]]> Many posture-focused professionals have asked me about ICD-10 coding for posture like Upper and Lower Cross syndromes, as well as other structural and posture imbalances. These are real bio-mechanic issues that respond well to care, but for all ICD-10’s specificity, there aren’t good ICD-10 diagnosis for posture conditions.

The reason: Postural asymmetries, patterns, and other bio-mechanic adaptations are observations, not a diagnosis.

So for low back pain, M54.5 in ICD-10 (what was 724.2 in ICD-9) describes the symptom and can be a diagnosis. If there’s a lower cross syndrome, you know muscle and stress patterns to address passively (SMT and MT) as well as actively with StrongPosture® exercise. But Lower Cross is not a diagnosis. However, it’s a posture observation and can be a contributing component of a more definitive diagnosis. Even though it’s not coded, it should be documented properly so that when necessary you can try to justify longer term treatment.

On the other hand, you can roughly address posture as a somatic dysfunction, and support that with upper or lower cross as an observation:

  • M99.03- Segmental and somatic dysfunction, Lumbar region. This is analogous to 739.3 in ICD-9Also of interest:
  • M99.01- Segmental and somatic dysfunction, Cervical region
  • M99.02- Segmental and somatic dysfunction, Thoracic region
  • M99.04- Segmental and somatic dysfunction, Sacral region
  • M99.05- Segmental and somatic dysfunction, Sacroiliac, hip, pubes region

Other postural considerations are R29.3- Abnormal posture. But again, this is in the signs and symptoms chapter, and so it is not a definitive diagnosis.

Also in this realm, the M-40 codes cover abnormalities of kyphosis and lordosis, and the M-41 codes cover scoliosis.  M62.89 is in Other specified disorders of muscle, and could be a catch all (which means it’s more likely to be scrutinized).

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Thanks to Dr. Gwilliam for his insight on ICD-10

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