General Question for the Week of December 20, 2021
MedLearn Publishing
December 19, 2021
Please help me understand when it’s appropriate or not to charge for post-processing 3D imaging.
Please help me understand when it’s appropriate or not to charge for post-processing 3D imaging.
If we are doing an ultrasound of the abdomen, ovaries, or scrotum and we use Doppler over the same areas do we charge a Doppler complete (93975) or limited (93976) in addition to the body part US code?
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What is the difference between concurrent and sequential infusions?
Can color-flow Doppler mapping be performed in addition to fetal echocardiography?
For sleep studies, does Medicare provide reimbursement for an unattended service?
Can we use 92973 to report a service that aspirates thrombus using a catheter such as Diver even if mechanical fragmentation is not involved?
Is it appropriate to report modifiers RT and LT for code 73565? Both knees are imaged on the same film.
Is it normal to report for each additional antibody stain when it comes to identifying the suspect neoplasm? If so, what codes would we report?
Was code 95827 deleted? If so how do we go about reporting the associated service?
What are the risks of improper use of modifiers like modifier 59?
For coding spirometry for infant or child is moderate sedation separately reportable?
We are confused about the coding for 78451 and 78452. Can you tell us what is the difference between single study myocardial perfusion SPECT (78451) and multiple studies SPECT (78452)? We have experienced problems when reporting 78451 twice.
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