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Additional Aerosol Treatments Deserves Separate Pay? Find Out

Published on Tue Apr 11, 2017

Question: If our physician performed nebulizer treatment to help control wheezing symptoms in a patient and then repeated the treatment again on the same calendar date of service, should we report one unit of 94640 or report it for each time our clinician performed the service? Ohio Subscriber Answer: When your clinician performs inhalation treatment to help control the symptoms of airway [...]
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