Ask a Rev Cycle Expert: Provider for nebulizer treatments?

Who else, besides a respiratory therapist, would be able to report a nebulizer treatment in a hospital outpatient department?

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Add Charge Capture Review to CDM Coding Updates in Q1

The first few months of the calendar year bring significant chargemaster (CDM) maintenance and review. This includes things like new coding and payment rules, new CPT/HCPCS codes, and the deletion of other CPT and HCPCS codes. It might not seem like the ideal time of year to undergo a charge capture review, but it may surprise you that the opposite can be true.

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COVID-19 Coding & Billing Updates

With the arrival of vaccines, the world turned a corner on the fight against COVID-19, and behind the frontlines, mid-revenue cycle personnel have been doing their best to provide support. In this article, we cover the coding and billing changes that have happened since October 2020.

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Ask a Rev Cycle Expert: Alternate Coding for CPT 99417?

Please advise how to price CPT® code 99417 for prolonged E/M services. CPT® code 99417 became effective 1/1/2021, but Medicare does not allow this service on any outpatient bill type. We use the information from the fee schedules to build our fees, so how would I set this up?

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Ask a Rev Cycle Expert: Are 77295 and 77280-77290 Bundled?

When we look up the 3-D planning 77295 along with the 77280/77290, we are not seeing a bundled warning. When we go and look into this a little further, a reference book we use states that teletherapy isodose plan (codes 77306-77307) and simulation (codes 77280-77290), on the same date are bundled. We understand that they are not payable on the same date of service, but does that also mean that they are bundled? This is just not clear.

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Ask a Rev Cycle Expert: E/M Codes for Telephone Encounters?

Now that we're in 2021, for E/M codes, now pre-visit planning, actual time with the patient, care coordination can be counted into the total time to bill. However, does this also ring true for the Telephone E/M codes? For everything we can count time for 99201-99205 and 99212-99215, can we also count the same things for 99441-99443, or can we only strictly count the time spent talking to the patient for 99441-99443?

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Ask a Rev Cycle Expert: Provider for nebulizer treatments?

Add Charge Capture Review to CDM Coding Updates in Q1

COVID-19 Coding & Billing Updates

Ask a Rev Cycle Expert: Alternate Coding for CPT 99417?

Ask a Rev Cycle Expert: Are 77295 and 77280-77290 Bundled?

Ask a Rev Cycle Expert: E/M Codes for Telephone Encounters?