Answers to your questions, directly from our experts
Do you know which respiratory services are billable? Are you coding correctly for pulmonary function testing? Are you familiar with the many code changes for 2012 and how to apply them? MedLearn consulting experts know the answers to these and many other questions, and they have laid them all out, clearly and succinctly, in our Coding Essentials for Respiratory Therapy/Pulmonary Function book. Highlights:
- Step-by-step guidance through CPT/HCPCS code usage and format, modifiers and chargemaster review methods
- Clarification of which services are billable and which are not
- How to avoid common mistakes, such as the unbundling of codes for pulmonary function testing
- Billing rules for respiratory therapists vs. nursing personnel
- Detailed explanation of the CCI and how to interpret CMS edit tables
- Overview of Medicare medical necessity coverage policies and frequency limitations
- 2012 APC payment rates and guidelines from the Medicare Hospital Manual
- Local coverage determinations a listing of Medicare policies; includes links to FI/MAC LCD web sites (eBook format only)
- NEW FOR 2012:
- Covers many 2012 code changes, including 10 deleted codes and six replacement codes, assignable to services ranging from total body plethysmography to functional residual capacity testing and membrane diffusion studies
- How to correctly use the new add-on codes, which must be preceded by a primary code
- Steps to take in response to the 2012 code changes, including updates to the chargemaster, PFT panels and existing test protocols
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