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Feel Free To Bill 94016 With Bronchodilator Study Code

Published on Fri Sep 23, 2011

Question: Can I bill 94016 with a complete set of PFTs including 94060? I know of a few offices billing these codes together and getting paid for both.Maine SubscriberAnswer: Yes, you can bill 94016 (Patient-initiated spirometric recording per 30-day period of time; physician review and interpretation only) with 94060 (Bronchodilation responsiveness, spirometry as in 94010, pre- and post-bronchodilator administration). CPT 94014-94016 is also referred to as transtelephonic spirometry.How 94016 works: At-home monitoring devices can provide a physician with life-critical information daily. The measurements show a physician how efficiently a patient can force air out of the lungs and lend important data to asthma management.Pulmonologists most commonly use spirometers to measure pulmonary lung function of forced vital capacity or total volume of air expired (FVC), forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) or forced expiratory flow (FEF). And they use peak-flow meters to analyze the peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) of [...]
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