Archive for The Day of July 20th, 2006
Archive for the Day of July 20th, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of July 20th, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during July 20th, 2006.
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Correct Medical Billing for Family Meetings
If you have a meeting with the family members of an assisted living facility patient (patient was not present) to discuss any aspect of the individual’s healthy status, such as memory loss or personality changes, you can bill Medicare but this scenario would not qualify for CPO (Care Plan Oversight) services. Instead this would fall under the realm of code range 99324-99337,(Domiciliary or rest home visit for the evaluation and management of a … patient). By the way, when you do report CPO services for a private-pay assisted living facility patient in the near future, you would assign new 2007 codes 99339-99340 (Individual physician supervision of a patient [patient not …
Correct Usage of 99336
Rest home care medical billing can be very tricky. Many coders bill for at home services or nursing home services when rest home care is performed. Incorrect medical billing coding such as this, could get you into trouble. Make sure your staff is up to date on the new medical billing coding regulations that addresses the specific guidelines for rest home coding. The place of the service is a big issue when dealing with the rest home services. Rest home, or custodial care facility is labeled as a POS 33. This is defined as a facility that provides room, board and other personal assistance services generally on a long-term basis. …
