by purush167 | Aug 20, 2022 | CPT modifiers
What is COBRA Qualifying Events The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) is a federal law that requires most employers to provide former employees and dependents who lose group health benefits due to a qualifying event with an opportunity to continue...
by purush167 | Jul 20, 2022 | CPT modifiers
Determining Complexity of Problems of E&M code Providers now have the option of using time or MDM for reporting their E/M visits. The challenge has been teaching physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals a new way of documenting patient encounters —...
by purush167 | Jun 4, 2022 | CPT modifiers
CPT code and Description ❖ 94640 – Pressurized or non-pressurized inhalation treatment for acute airway obstruction for therapeutic purposes and/or for diagnostic purposes such as sputum induction with an aerosol generator, nebulizer, metered dose inhaler or...
by purush167 | May 8, 2022 | CPT modifiers
EPSDT DENTAL PROGRAM Dental Hospital Calls and Sedation Policy Revisions D9230 NITROUS OXIDE – analgesia, anxiolysis, inhalation of nitrous oxide Current Policy: Nitrous oxide inhalation analgesia is only payable to providers whopossess a personal permit for its...
by purush167 | May 8, 2022 | CPT modifiers
Anesthesia Billing Modifiers List The following modifiers are used when billing for anesthesia services: • QX – Qualified nonphysician anesthetist with medical direction by a physician. • QZ – CRNA without medical direction by a...
by purush167 | May 8, 2022 | CPT modifiers
CPT code and Description G8991 – Other physical or occupational therapy primary functional limitation, projected goal status, at therapy episode outset, at reporting intervals, and at discharge or to end reporting G8992 – Other physical or occupational...
by purush167 | Apr 25, 2022 | CPT modifiers
Medicare COB – Basics It’s important to know how Medicare works with other kinds of health or drug coverage and who should pay your bills first. This is called “coordination of benefits.” If you have Medicare and other health or drug coverage, each type of...
by purush167 | Feb 12, 2022 | CPT modifiers
CPT code and Description 78451: Myocardial perfusion imaging, tomographic (SPECT) (including attenuation correction, qualitative or quantitative wall motion, ejection fraction by first pass or gated technique, additional quantification, when performed); single study,...
by purush167 | Jan 2, 2022 | CPT modifiers
CPT Code Code Descriptor 45380 Colonoscopy, flexible; with biopsy, single or multiple 45381 Colonoscopy, flexible; with directed submucosal injection(s), any substance Colonoscopy – CPT Codes 45378-45398, G0105, G0121 The American Society for Gastrointestinal...
by purush167 | Nov 18, 2021 | CPT modifiers
HCPCS/CPT Code Short Description Comments 58611 Ligate oviduct(s) add-on Associated with a cesarean delivery.58661 Laparoscopy remove adnexa Only payable as a sterilization when the procedure is a salpingectomy when billed with diagnosis Z30.2 and *modifier FP. An...
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