Gastroenterology Coding Alert
Provide Adequate Documentation to Ensure Reimbursement for Unlisted Procedures
Question: New Jersey Subscriber Answer: Since you're reporting an unlisted code, you will have to provide documentation explaining in detail about the procedure that your gastroenterologist performed also providing information on the time involved in carrying out the procedure. Also, provide an explanation indicating that you have performed a thorough search in the 2012 CPT® manual and found no procedure code that matches to the procedure that your gastroenterologist performed. Explain that as you could find no code, you had to settle in for the unlisted code for the procedure.
Gastroenterology Coding Alert
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