san__gsu
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We are getting denials from several different insurance companies for the way we are billing CPT 33961. We are a billing company for physicians, which means we bill each claim per date of service. When a patient has the initial ECMO (CPT 33960) it is billed on one claim because it is usually one date of service and the subsequent ECMO (CPT 33961) is billed on another claim because it is usually a different date of service. The CPT book does state to use CPT 33961 in conjunction with 33960 however it also states that CPT 33960 is for the initial 24 hours and CPT 33961 is for each additional 24 hours. We can't seem to get the insurance companies to understand why these services are being billed on separate claims.
Is anyone having problems like this? If so do you have any suggestions as to what we can do?
Thanks!![Confused :confused: :confused:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Is anyone having problems like this? If so do you have any suggestions as to what we can do?
Thanks!