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I have a psychiatrist who does mostly office visits/ consultations. Her practice wants to hire a nurse to check for vital signs (heart rate, blood pressure, ect.).
Are vital signs billed separately or are they included in the office visit, and we just adjust the time...
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I have recently been asked for some clarification on how we do E&M coding for an inpatient setting. We are an infectious disease specialty clinic and are called in for consultations. Sometimes it is a patient that we have already seen in our clinic, and the consult is for the...
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I have one where the patient was seen in the hospital as a consult on 11/3/15 for a distal fibula fracture by our doctor.
Then on 11/16/15 the patient comes to the office for a fallow up on that fracture, first time we have seen them in our office.
The hospital did not code a...
Can someone tell me what you bill for vestibular nerve resection. The ENT office wants to bill 61616
what would the ENT bill and what would the neurosurgen bill?
thanks!!
We have a doctor that went over just the results of lab work with a patient's family member. This patient has dementia and it is difficult to get the patient to the office, patient is not in a SNF and not on hospice. I was wondering how we would code it. Please help.
Hey guys! My practice has been using 96372 for b12 injections when patients bring their own meds. Recently we have been getting denials for "lacking a required modifier" when we have more than one injection. Usually they have a vaccination and also an injection of their own meds. Our office...
Please help. I was under the impression, that you can charge an office visit during the post-op period if you treat the pt in the office for infection at the site of surgery. Am I wrong?
I work for radiologist's and I was just wondering if anyone knows if we can bill insurance companies if we generate a report through our office on exams performed at another office or institution. These exams would be brought to us by referring doctors asking for a second opionion.
And if we...