Archive for The Day of April 17th, 2006
Archive for the Day of April 17th, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of April 17th, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during April 17th, 2006.
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Apply a Flat Fee for Sedation Codes
A provider that is not an anesthesiologist, such as a pediatrician, should use the new moderate sedation codes (99143 – 99150) to capture the charge for the procedure’s base units. These codes eliminate any need to bill extra units. You should ignore billable units and use new time-based codes instead. For example, a 4 year old presents for an MRI performed by a radiologist. A pediatrician provides moderate sedation throughout the procedure. The sedation lasts for thirty minutes. Before, you would have coded this sedation by with anesthesia code 01922. Because this procedure has seven base units and 2 time units, you would have billed 01922 x 9. On new …
E/M Might be the Answer to BCP for Acne
Birth control pills for acne can be a perplexing coding problem. Occasionally, we come across a case in which a patient obtains birth control pills because her dermatologist recommended them to help clear up an acne problem. Some people say that we should not even code the birth control pills (oral contraception), but if this is the only problem that the patient presented to the OB-GYN for, does that mean that we should still not code for it to keep with specificity? E/M might be the answer to this particular problem you may come across. If an OB-GYN prescribes birth control pills (BCPs) to a patient for acne problems, that …
