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Otolaryngology Coding Alert

Payer Update:

Don't Expect Bilateral Payment for 69210 From These Payers

Published on Wed May 14, 2014

Official word comes from Medicare on stance, despite AAO-HNS objections.  Otolaryngologists and physicians in some other specialties (such as family practice) have fought since early 2014 to gain bilateral payment for the removal of impacted cerumen, based on the CPT® 2014 manual’s description of service. Read on for the latest roadblock to that type of filing.  Background: In previous years, [...]
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