Compliance Question of the Week – Respiratory

How do we determine when 88740 and 88741 should be billed separately or bundled? Do you have any advice?

What ICD-10 diagnostic code would we report for COVID-19 testing for asymptomatic patients prior to inpatient admissions, planned outpatient procedures, and immunosuppressant therapies as part of Pre-Procedure Screening for PFT?

Does Medicare cover codes 94014 and 94015? We seem to be running into problems when reporting these.

Do you have any tips for billing 95803?

What happened with codes 93720–93722 for plethysmography? We keep getting denials when we try to use these codes.

What are the documentation requirements for respiratory rehabilitation services?

Can we report 95806 for home sleep tests?

Can we report 31622 if the operative report states that the tracheobronchial tree was evaluated with a bronchoscope and that sterile saline washings were recovered and sent for culture and cytologic examination is performed?

What does APC status indicator J1 identify?

Are there any limitations to pulmonary function studies that we should be aware of?

How do we code for the instruction of patients on the use of the metered dose inhaler nd/or the hand held nebulizer? We know that service is described in 94664, but we don’t know what additional code if any should be reported or if we should use only 94664. Would we use 94799 for the education portion?