Our office has started performing Pearson testing on patients as an assessment before getting scheduled for neurostimulator trials.
For those of you who aren't familiar w/ Pearson testing it is basically a form that the patient fills out, the answers get faxed out, someone offsite intereprets the results and these get faxed back to us which will inform us of whether or not the patient is psychologically "fit" to get the neurostimulator procedure.
The patients are filling out these "paper & pen" questionnaires while in office with a medical assistant administering the test. The provider is NOT in the room with this time.
What, if anything, is billable?
We were originally told that 96101 would be billable no matter who administers the test but upon further research on my part I don't feel comfortable coding this as the physician didn't administer the test directly nor are we interpreting the test.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Amber
For those of you who aren't familiar w/ Pearson testing it is basically a form that the patient fills out, the answers get faxed out, someone offsite intereprets the results and these get faxed back to us which will inform us of whether or not the patient is psychologically "fit" to get the neurostimulator procedure.
The patients are filling out these "paper & pen" questionnaires while in office with a medical assistant administering the test. The provider is NOT in the room with this time.
What, if anything, is billable?
We were originally told that 96101 would be billable no matter who administers the test but upon further research on my part I don't feel comfortable coding this as the physician didn't administer the test directly nor are we interpreting the test.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Amber