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Sleep Studies:

Accurately Code Sleep Tests With These Quick Hints

Published on Tue Sep 08, 2020

Remember: Don’t classify all sleep studies as polysomnography. From electroencephalogram (EEG) additions to cardiac rhythm recordings, your pulmonologist may perform multiple services during sleep studies, but reporting these procedures shouldn’t always be confusing. You can increase your coding accuracy for facility-based outpatient sleep studies by understanding a few basics about the services, codes, and modifiers involved. Here’s what they are: [...]
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