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Hi everyone! I just began working in a coding office that is attached to a hospital. I am coding mostly the physician's offices that are also owned by the hospital. Recently a co-worked asked me to helped her code a pain clinic. She was showing me how to code the clinic, and for pain injections into each hip, she wants me to code, for example:
20610 1.0 1.70 Drain/Inject Joint/Bursa major joint ($300)
J1030 2.0 Inj Methylprdnisolone Act (40mg)
and change the 20610 to $600 and add modifier -50 (meaning they would get $1200 for this)
To confuse me more, she only wants me to do this for one doctor out of three in the same clinic. When I questioned her, she said this is how we have to do it to get paid, and when I tried to ask more questions, she actually yelled at me.
Am I overanalyzing this? Is this common practice? I just want to understand why I am coding something in a certain way because I want to be coding correctly.
Thanks everyone!
20610 1.0 1.70 Drain/Inject Joint/Bursa major joint ($300)
J1030 2.0 Inj Methylprdnisolone Act (40mg)
and change the 20610 to $600 and add modifier -50 (meaning they would get $1200 for this)
To confuse me more, she only wants me to do this for one doctor out of three in the same clinic. When I questioned her, she said this is how we have to do it to get paid, and when I tried to ask more questions, she actually yelled at me.
Am I overanalyzing this? Is this common practice? I just want to understand why I am coding something in a certain way because I want to be coding correctly.
Thanks everyone!
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