Does your practice perform any minor or major procedures? If so, this post is for you! Primary care practices and urgent care centers should pay … [Read more...]
Lesion Destruction Tip Sheet
CPT® does not make it easy to locate codes for destruction of lesion(s). These codes are found in multiple chapters throughout the CPT® book, … [Read more...]
Reporting Excision of Multiple Lesions of the Same Size
Question: The doctor I work with excised two benign lesions from a patient’s arm, of the same length. Do I add them together and report one code? … [Read more...]
Primary care and post-op reporting | Medicare requirements
Hey, primary care! This one’s for you too. Primary care doctors probably didn’t pay attention when the news broke that CMS is requiring reporting … [Read more...]
Reporting post op visits to Medicare in 2017
CMS has mandated post op reporting using code 99024 in 9 states for about 250 codes. This isn’t just for surgeons! Many of the codes on the list are … [Read more...]
Why You Shouldn’t Automatically Bill an E/M with Every Procedure
Should you bill just a procedure? Or an E/M service with it? Medicare provides a breakdown by CPT® code of the pre-evaluation, pre-operative, … [Read more...]
Can I get paid for…an office visit the same day as a minor procedure
Can you bill an E/M service on the same day as a minor procedure? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. The decision to perform a minor procedure is included … [Read more...]