Respiratory Question for the Week of September 18, 2017
Can code 94726 be reported with code 94727?
Can code 94726 be reported with code 94727?
One of our staff has identified a Medicare overpayment. What should we do?
Are G0436 and G0437 the correct HCPCS level II codes to use for counseling to prevent tobacco use?
What code should we report for the insertion of a percutaneous ventricular-assist device such as the Impella device?
For the last quarter of 2017, are there any additional drugs with pass-through status?
How often does CMS update the NCCI tables?
Can you provide a definition for “digitally subtract” when it comes to imaging? And does this procedure have an impact on code assignments?
How does CMS determine whether a test is moderate or high complexity, or if it is waived?
Would the following scenario code out as an abdominal aortography with bilateral runoff with 75625 and 75716? Or would it be 75630 and 75774 as the department has charged? Selective catheterizations into the arteries were not described.
For a lower extremity revascularization procedure, access with a 5-french sheath was inserted into the right femoral artery and a sequential digital subtraction angiography was performed at multiple levels of the right lower extremity.
Next, a 5-french pigtail was advanced through the sheath over a standard wire into the distal abdominal aorta above the bilateral iliac ostium. From this position, a digital subtraction angiogram was obtained after the distal abdominal aorta.
A glidewire was advanced through the pigtail catheter into the distal left superficial femoral artery (SFA). The pigtail catheter was switched out for a straight tapered glide catheter advanced into the left common femoral artery, and multiple digital subtracted angiograms were obtained of the left lower extremity at multiple levels. Thereafter, endovascular revascularization proceeded.
Can code 94200 (maximum breathing capacity, maximal voluntary ventilation) be billed with any other?
What codes would be assigned for advance care planning (ACP)?
Must a hospital pharmacist retain documentation for Medicare patients?
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