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YOU BE THE CODER ~ Reporting Multiple Wakefulness Test

Published on Tue Mar 27, 2007

Question: How should I code a multiple wakefulness test?

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Answer: Physicians rely on a multiple wakefulness test to help diagnose disorders of excessive somnolence. Submit the claim with 95805 (Multiple sleep latency or maintenance of wakefulness testing, recording, analysis and interpretation of physiological measurements of sleep during multiple trials to assess sleepiness).
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