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Revenue Boosting Procedures:

29130, 29550, 28190: 3 Ways You Can Add an Additional $293 in Minor Procedure Pay

Published on Fri Aug 27, 2010

Finger splinting, buddy taping, splinter removal increase revenue without requiring complex surgical work. You could be missing out on opportunities to capture higher-paying procedure codes if you're overlooking reporting these splinting and foreign body removal codes. Procedure 1: Collect $38 for Sport Injury Splinting Pee-wee football's started up and with it the chance you'll see an increased number of patients with jammed fingers. "For a non-angulated finger, the pediatrician might fix the sprain, splint the finger, and send the patient home," notes Richard Lander, MD, a pediatrician and clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. For the finger splint application, you could report 29130 (Application of finger splint; static), which contains 1.02 relative value units (RVUs) using the Resource Based Relative Value Scale. Although global fracture care codes include the initial cast or application, you may use the casting and splinting codes in [...]
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