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Can we bill an E/M service with a scheduled endoscopy?

Question:

Can we charge an E/M service when we do a scheduled endoscopy to account for the cost of nursing staff, supplies, pre- and post- care of the patient in the suite? We use place of service office, and I know we can’t charge a facility fee. Many of our commercial payers pay the same professional fee, whether we do the service in our office or in the outpatient department.

Answer:

You cannot charge a separate E/M for doing a procedure in your office to cover the costs of the supplies, staffing, etc.

For Medicare, professional fees for CPT® codes are valued with facility and non-facility values. The non-facility payment is higher than the facility fee. A physician gets paid more for a service done in the office than for the same CPT® code/service done in a facility, to account for the additional costs. I’m sorry to hear your private payers don’t provide a differential payment, as well.

Here is a brief explanation of facility versus non-facility payments. This article provides a little more detail about RVUs.

And, if you search for modifier 25 in the search box, you will find resources about the requirements for that modifier.

 

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In 1988, CodingIntel.com founder Betsy Nicoletti started a Medical Services Organization for a rural hospital, supporting physician practice. She has been a self-employed consultant since 1998. She estimates that in the last 20 years her audience members number over 28,400 at in person events and webinars. She has had 2,500 meetings with clinical providers and reviewed over 43,000 medical notes. She knows what questions need answers and developed this resource to answer those questions. For more about Betsy visit www.betsynicoletti.com.

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