by Medical Billing | Jun 28, 2016 | Medicare payment basics
Dialysis Centers Outlined below are generally accepted billing guidelines. This is intended to be illustrative and is not an all-inclusive list. • Indicate “72X” type of bill. The third digit is based on the type of claim (interim, corrected, etc.). • Hospital...
by Medical Billing | Jun 18, 2016 | Medicare payment basics
The chiropractic manipulative treatment codes include a pre-manipulation patient assessment. Additional E/M services may be reported separately using modifier 25, if the member’s condition requires a significant separately identifiable E/M service, above and beyond...
by Medical Billing | Jun 17, 2016 | Medicare payment basics
At the outset of the physician fee schedule, the question was posed as to whether visits should be billed on the same day as an allergy injection (CPT codes 95115-95117), since these codes have status indicators of A rather than T. Visits should not be billed with...
by Medical Billing | Jul 9, 2014 | Medicare payment basics
Billing with National Drug Codes (NDCs) Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) does not require inclusion of the National Drug Code (NDC) along with the applicable Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) or Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®)...
by Lori | Feb 2, 2011 | Medicare payment basics
MEDICARE SCREENING SERVICE AT THE TIME OF COVERED E/M SERVICES Medicare will reimburse separately for covered screening services (e.g., G0101, Q0091) when performed at the same encounter as a covered E/M service, such as a problem-oriented visit (codes 99201-99215)....