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Supervision Rules:

Nail Down Supervision Rules for These Services

Published on Thu May 09, 2019

Can you differentiate general supervision from direct? Supervision can be a tricky issue, particularly when you’re trying to determine whether a service is billable when the pulmonologist isn’t in the office. A subscriber wrote to Pulmonology Coding Alert and asked what the required supervision rules are for the following codes: 94617 -- Exercise test for bronchospasm, including pre- and post-spirometry, [...]
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