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Respiratory:
In last week's answer, you provided guidelines for complying with Medicare's medical necessity requirements. But what can be done when the physician orders a sleep study but has not performed the required diagnostic tests?
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Radiology:
At our Children's Hospital, the goal, as always, is to minimize radiation exposure to our patients. When a physician orders a CT of the chest and both shoulders, our tech will scan the patient's chest but will include the shoulders and then do a reconstru
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Laboratory:
If a physician orders a CBC (85025) and the auto differential is flagged on the hematology analyzer, the auto differential is not reported and a manual differential is performed and reported. Can the lab bill for the manual differential (85007) and hemogr
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Pharmacy:
How does CMS determine what drugs are packaged?
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Cardiology:
My question relates to charging for EP when a physician puts in an ICD w/ single lead on the right side and then has to remove one that was put in on the left side. How can I charge for these two procedures without the bill being kicked back out? Should I
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General:
For discontinued procedures that qualify for the coding of either modifier 73 or 74, can you please clarify whether or not the hospital can separately bill for opened but unused supplies that were intended to be used during the course of a procedure that
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