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Stop Missing Out on Extra After-Hours Payment

Published on Thu Dec 20, 2012

Staying open late isn’t just a patient convenience it can bring in cash, too. If your practice is open during “non-traditional” hours or your urologist provides after-hours services to a patient, and you aren’t billing for those “extra” services, your practice may be missing out on additional reimbursement. To make sure you’re bringing in every dollar your urologists deserve, you need to know the proper codes to bill for after-hours services, as well as what qualifies as “after-hours.” Let the Clock Determine 99050 vs. 99051 If your urologist sees a patient in the office during hours when the practice would normally be closed, such as on weekends or after 6 p.m., CPT guidelines allow you to bill +99050 (Services provided in the office at times other than regularly scheduled office hours, or days when the office is normally closed [e.g., holidays, Saturday or Sunday], in addition to basic service) as long [...]
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