Ob-Gyn Coding Alert

Preventive Services:

Medicare's "Carve Out" Rule Will Help Compute Your Patient's Fee

Do you know which modifier tells Medicare that you know the service isn’t covered? If you need to estimate what to charge a Medicare patient when your ob-gyn performs a preventive service as well as an E/M service at the same visit, you have to use the “carve out” rule. Break down this sometimes puzzling rule into terms you can [...]
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