I would like to know how other coders bill for a Medicare patient who comes in for a pessary cleaning and reinsertion. My impression is the MCR guidelines state it needs to be billed as an E & M and not with the pessary insertion code. My physician was told at a conference by a coder that if the patient has a problem such as vaginitis you can bill for the office visit and the pessary insert code. Would just like information on how others would bill this visit.
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Wiki Pessary care
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kathyvl74
Networker
pessary insert code 57160 is for inital fitting or re-fitting of pessary. For cleaning and reinsert our office bills using e/m code
tmerickson
Guest
We do the same.
Beachbum32459
Networker
ditto, E/M only. 