ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert
Epistaxis
New York Subscriber
Answer: Subsequent episodes of the control of nasal hemorrhage in the posterior nasal cavity are billed using 30906 (control nasal hemorrhage, posterior, with posterior nasal packs and/or a cauterization, any method; subsequent). Do not use 30999 (unlisted procedure, nose) to indicate repacking of this area.
Modifier -76 (repeat procedure by same physician) would not be attached if one subsequent episode was billed (30906). If more than one subsequent episode was performed, the third, fourth, etc., episodes would require modifier -76.
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Question: A patient comes in for epistaxis (784.7) and has packing (30905). Packing is removed, [...]
