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Setting Makes All the Difference When You Report Respiratory Therapy Services

Published on Tue Mar 08, 2005

Use this tool to make sure you don't leave out dx codes and cut your bottom line Respiratory services can get tricky when it comes to determining medical necessity, location of service, and incident-to providers.

But we've designed a decision matrix for you to follow that will help you cover all your bases when reporting codes such as 31720 (Catheter aspiration [separate procedure]; nasotracheal) for in-office respiratory services.
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