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e4health Team Spotlight- Patricia Ward
Join us in celebrating Patricia Ward, our Clinical Data Abstraction Manager, and explore how her leadership is driving innovation at e4health.Can you walk us through your career path and how it led you to your current role at e4health? I hold a Bachelor of...
Coding Tips: LAP Flap (Lumbar Artery Perforator Flap)
The LAP flap is a type of autologous breast reconstruction that uses skin and tissue from the lower back and love handle to make a breast This detached tissue is used to make a breast and small arteries and veins are sutured under a microscope to allow the tissue to...
Coding Tips: Endoscopic TransEsophageal Puncture (TEP)
TEP (Endoscopic TransEsophageal Puncture) is a new ICD-10-PCS valid with April 2025 discharges. A TEP with voice prosthesis provides the ability to speak after a total laryngectomy. A one-way valve implant is placed in a small hole that is made between the trachea and...
Coding Tips: Drug-eluting Resorbable Scaffold
Esprit™ BTK Everolimus Eluting Resorbable Scaffold System Esprit is designed to physically support the vessel and release everolimus to reduce the risk of re-narrowing. Over three years, the scaffold is resorbed to allow vessel remodeling and reduce the chances of...
Coding Tips: Zero Balance Ultrafiltration
Ultrafiltration is used to maintain volume management and/or filter the blood in order to reduce the adverse effects of hemodilution during CPB. Example: A patient was admitted for a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure. During the CABG, the surgeon noted...
Coding Tips: Anosognosia
Anosognosia, also called lack of insight, is a neurological condition in which the individual is unaware of, and unable to accept their neurological deficit or psychiatric condition. It is associated with mental illness, dementia, and structural brain lesions, such as...
Coding Tips: Presymptomatic Diabetes Mellitus
Subcategory E10.A, Type 1 diabetes mellitus, presymptomatic, has been created with new codes to capture distinct stages of presymptomatic type 1 diabetes (T1D) mellitus. Presymptomatic T1D consists of the presence of islet autoantibodies or biomarkers that attack...
Coding Tips: Complication and Comorbidities
Homelessness codes in the SDOH section of ICD-10-CM are now Complications/Comorbidities effective with October 1, 2024 discharges. The reason? There is a higher average cost to care for such individuals.Z59.10- Inadequate housing, unspecified Z59.11- Inadequate...
e4health Team Spotlight – Derek Goodwin
Join us in celebrating Derek Goodwin, our HIM Manager, and explore how his leadership is driving innovation at e4health.Can you walk us through your career path and how it led you to your current role at e4health? One of my first project placements was on...
Coding Tips: Cement and Fat Pulmonary Artery Embolisms
Two new codes have been created at subcategory I26.0, Pulmonary embolism with acute cor pulmonale, to capture cement embolism of pulmonary artery with acute cor pulmonale (I26.03), and fat embolism of pulmonary artery with acute cor pulmonale (I26.04).Pulmonary cement...
Coding Tip: COVID Guidelines
As of April 2025, documentation of a positive COVID-19 test alone no longer confirms a diagnosis of COVID-19. Provider documentation is REQUIRED. Note the verbiage that has been removed from the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting. Code only confirmed cases:...
e4health Team Spotlight – Kyle Drey
Join us in celebrating Kyle Drey, our Senior Account Executive, and explore how his leadership is driving innovation at e4health.Can you walk us through your career path and how it led you to your current role at e4health? Throughout my career, I’ve worn many...