General Question for the Week of August 14, 2017
Question:
What will be the payment increase or decrease for the next year of the IPPS?
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Cardiology Question for the Week of August 14, 2017
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Does Medicare cover leadless pacemakers?
Radiology Question for the Week of August 14, 2017
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We performed a whole-body octreotide exam with SPECT. Since the imaging took place over two days, would we assign 78804 and 78803? Is the time frame the only difference between 78804 and 78802?
Respiratory Question for the Week of August 14, 2017
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Can you provide any basic guidelines regarding the required documentation for separately reporting inpatient RT?
Laboratory Question for the Week of August 14, 2017
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What codes would be reported for targeted genomic sequence analysis?
Pharmacy Question for the Week of August 14, 2017
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Is it true that CMS will cut reimbursement for the 340B program in 2018?
Respiratory Question for the Week of August 7, 2017
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When a diagnostic or surgical endoscopy of the respiratory system is performed and an evaluation of the access regions is performed, can the evaluation be reported separately?
Radiology Question for the Week of August 7, 2017
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Often times computed tomography (CT) scans are performed on multiple anatomical areas (such as cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine). Can CPT code 76377 be reported up to one time for each base imaging code?
Cardiology Question for the Week of August 7, 2017
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For Medicare hospital billing, if a planned PTCA is attempted but the balloon cannot be advanced across the lesion, can we bill for the attempted angioplasty?
General Question for the Week of August 7, 2017
Question:
In terms of Medicare billing, what does it mean when a CPT® code descriptor includes the term “separate procedure”?