Laboratory Question for the Week of August 6, 2018
MedLearn Publishing
August 6, 2018
When it comes to urinalysis, should our order forms include with and/or without reflex?
When it comes to urinalysis, should our order forms include with and/or without reflex?
Our radiology department is removing a G-tube, but there is no CPT® code for this procedure. Is it appropriate for us to charge 99211 (office/outpatient visit established) when performed by a radiologist or technologist?
How is the following scenario coded? A patient undergoes angioplasty and bare metal stenting of a distal LC lesion through a vein graft followed by the placement of a separate drug-eluting stent in the proximal native vessel via a separate access.
How should a series of back-to-back continuous inhalation therapy treatments be coded?
What would be the billing date of service for a provider reading the interpretation for a 24-hour EEG?
The author responds to a Talk Ten Tuesday listener’s comments regarding the coding of bronchoalveolar lavage. During the Talk Ten Tuesday broadcast on July 24,
Changes to the inpatient admission order regulations are significant The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment (IPPS)
Reactions have been particularly negative thus far.. Outrage, disbelief, and anger tend to characterize the tone of comments regarding the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Multiple visits to observation patients may soon be payable but… When one looks at the current payment structure for observation medicine from the physician viewpoint,
Significant – and wildly varying – changes to reimbursement loom ahead. You don’t have to be a coder to realize what the financial impact of
Similar to restructuring tax brackets but then having everyone pay exactly the same single flat rate It is difficult to understand the logic underlying the
When caring for an infant in the NICU, can RT charge separately for a capillary blood draw for the specimen for an arterial blood gas? What is the appropriate CPT® code?
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