Pulmonology Coding Alert

Critical Care:

Do You Know When Modifier 25 Applies to Critical Care Codes?

Plus: Documentation must include specific details to report critical care. Do your pulmonologists document as thoroughly as they should when billing critical care visits? And are they justified in appending modifiers to these claims? That’s what auditors sought to determine as part of a new comparative billing report (CBR) compiled by RELI Group, Inc., which CMS contracts to develop, produce, [...]
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