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Press the Pause Button Before Billing Oximetry and E/M Together

Published on Thu Mar 19, 2015

Question:We are billing an evaluation and management (E/M) code 99212 along with a pulse oximetry and these codes are being refused as bundled. There is no CCI edit for these codes. We provided the services in the office. We have tried to put a modifier 25 on the E/M and a modifier 59 on the 94760 but no success. How [...]
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