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Simplify Your Spirometry Claim

Published on Wed Jul 16, 2025

Question: I have a report where the pulmonologist performed spirometry, then administered a long-acting bronchodilator via a nebulizer and performed spirometry again. The physician was seeing the patient for evaluation of their chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). I’m new to pulmonology coding and I reported 94010 and 94060, but the claim was denied. How do I correct the claim? Louisiana [...]
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