I am in the process of redoing our DI compendium. It is a mess and for four years everyone has had access to it compounding the issue. To make things worse the interface is with CPSI which is a dinosaur program to say the least. My question is for a DI of say a right leg, do you have in your compendium a DI code and description “CT right leg”, or just “CT Lower Extremity” and put in the notes “right leg”?
Ex) CPT 73700 is CT Lower Extremity - Which is what we have in CPSI. In eCW we have CT right leg, CT left leg, CT right hip, CT left Hip…..etc…. goes on and on. And all of these share the same DI code which has caused all sorts of errors. If we stay the current path of having a DI for every body part our compendium will be a mile long. It makes sense to me to keep the CPT code for the particular DI and have the provider put in the notes “right leg” etc.. More work for provider but I think it would make our interface work properly. Hope this makes sense. How are you doing it?
Thanks,
Tim