Hello,
We frequently bill patient office visits and injections in our internal medicine/family medicine practice. Lately, we have noticed injections being bundled or denied all together in scenarios like this:
99213-25 780.79, 401.9
96372 281.0
J3420
69210-59 380.4
Ins co. paid on everything except 96372, stating that it was bundled into the other procedure. How can an injection code be bundled into an ear irrigation? Is it because the ear irrigation is a procedure, therefore, any procedure would include an injection of a local anesthetic, if necessary? In this case, nothing is injected during an ear irrigation, so how would this be explained?
Thanks,
Jackie
We frequently bill patient office visits and injections in our internal medicine/family medicine practice. Lately, we have noticed injections being bundled or denied all together in scenarios like this:
99213-25 780.79, 401.9
96372 281.0
J3420
69210-59 380.4
Ins co. paid on everything except 96372, stating that it was bundled into the other procedure. How can an injection code be bundled into an ear irrigation? Is it because the ear irrigation is a procedure, therefore, any procedure would include an injection of a local anesthetic, if necessary? In this case, nothing is injected during an ear irrigation, so how would this be explained?
Thanks,
Jackie