Coding Strategies:
Strengthen Your Skills To Bill E/M With Osteopathic Manipulation
Published on Fri Apr 27, 2012
Append modifier 25 only in cases where necessary.Billing for osteopathic manipulation can throw you a challenge if you are not sure what treatment was offered, which part of the body is involved, or if an E/M was done. Advice from our experts will help you to carefully analyze the practical situation and report appropriately. Find the Correct Code FamilyYour osteopathic physicians (DOs, or osteopaths) are fully licensed physicians who operate under the same licensing and certification rules as medical doctors (MDs). You hence, adopt a traditional approach to handle most of their billing matters. Your DOs may also perform osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT), for which you may turn to codes 98925 (Osteopathic manipulative treatment [OMT]; 1-2 body regions involved)--98929 (Osteopathic manipulative treatment [OMT]; 9-10 body regions involved). You may have trouble distinguishing between OMT and chiropractic manipulative treatment (CMT), 98940 (Chiropractic manipulative treatment [CMT]; spinal, 1-2 regions)--98943 (Chiropractic manipulative treatment [...]