You Be the Coder:
Reporting Routine UAs
Published on Wed Oct 12, 2022
Question: Does 99396 include 88150 and 81000, or can I separate these services? Kentucky Subscriber Answer: First, you would not be billing 88150 (Cytopathology, slides, cervical or vaginal; manual screening under physician supervision) because you are not a laboratory billing for the pathology service; so cross that off your list. You say that you’re reporting 99396 (Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine [...]