Lab Coder

Hello, everyone! Welcome to Lab Coder, a blog that will feature tips, comments, questions, and research-in-progress about HCPCS, CPT, ICD-10, etc. for common lab-related diagnoses and procedures. How will this blog help you code lab claims faster and easier? Who's writing this blog, anyway?  Read on for info about the 3 main benefits this blog offers, as well as some background info about how I got into lab coding. Background   Recently I was assigned to a specialized lab coding team. I was a bit of a rookie coder at the time, and the team itself had also been newly formed. Amid my excitement at taking on a specialty, I realized there was quite a lot of industry standard to be researched and procedure to be established. So my partner and I knew we had plenty of Google searching, guideline scouring, and forum browsing ahead of us (which was fine by me, because I actually enjoy research -- the trickier, the better!).   From the beginning, though, we noticed a prob