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3 Handy Tips Shore Up Prolonged Services Coding For Cleaner Claims

Published on Mon Aug 12, 2019

Hint: Don’t forget that +99354-+99357 are add-on codes. If your neurosurgeon provides an extended evaluation and management (E/M) visit, you could possibly report a prolonged service code. However, when reporting prolonged services codes, you must follow specific rules such as only reporting a prolonged service if it is more than 30 minutes beyond the typical time listed for the code [...]
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