Archive for The Day of July 27th, 2006
Archive for the Day of July 27th, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of July 27th, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during July 27th, 2006.
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Get Reimbursed for Tests
Diagnostic testing causes a lot of confusion in medical billing. One rule of thumb when doing the billing is to only report what your documentation will support. It is tempting to report a diagnosis that comes after a pathology test because common sense would tell you that it is more likely to be paid. Instead report the reason for test and use your medical necessity such as patient complaints and symptoms to back up the reasons for the test. Use your judgment when reporting testing and don’t use presumed diagnosis where an illness or condition is trying to be “ruled out”. Instead code the signs and symptoms the patient is …
Coding Dual Procedures
If you have a core biopsy and an FNA (Fine Needle Aspiration) performed on the same day, your CMS manual states you cannot report fine needle aspiration (FNA) codes 10021 and 10022 with another biopsy procedure code for the same lesion. A good example of this is when a physician performs an FNA and core biopsy for the same breast lesion during the same encounter, but does not document that the FNA sample was inadequate for diagnosis. The physician performed the services described by 10022 (Fine needle aspiration; with imaging guidance), 19102 (Biopsy of breast; percutan-eous, needle core, using imaging guidance), and 76096 (Mammographic guidance for needle placement, breast [e.g., …
