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ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert

EKG Denials:

Monitor Your Documentation To Rejuvenate Payment For EKG Interpretations

Published on Fri Nov 21, 2014

Does your chart trace a clear picture of a separately identifiable service? It's happening again. Payers are aggressively bundling the interpretation and report of diagnostic EKGs into the ED E/M level of service. Although the reimbursement for code 93010 (Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only) only pays $8.60 in the 2014 Medicare fee schedule, [...]
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