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Pulmonary Coding:

Win Deserved Dollars With These 5 Tips for Inhaler Teaching

Published on Wed Nov 27, 2013

Tip: Use a judicious mix of modifiers if you have the documentation to back your claim. You don’t need to leave dollars on the table just because some payers deny payment when your provider spends time helping a patient with an inhaler demo or evaluation. But you’ll need to keep track of the device used, whether medicine was administered during [...]
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