ChrisZim
Networker
One of my cardio's wants to bill for a pacemaker interrogation (93288) done when he saw a patient (inpatient) at the hospital.
He is wanting to bill a 93222, 93288-26. My issue is that the only documentation of the interrogation is in his patient encounter note (what he is using to support the 93222). There is no separate report/readings record of the PCM interrogation. His note does list the ohms, etc. of the leads and that no changes were made. It was my understanding that to bill a 93288, a separate report needs documented (much the way he can't bill an EKG interpretation and report - 93010 - just by mentioning what the tracing showed in his regular progress note). But I can't actually find anything documenting that it is required.
Any thoughts? TIA
He is wanting to bill a 93222, 93288-26. My issue is that the only documentation of the interrogation is in his patient encounter note (what he is using to support the 93222). There is no separate report/readings record of the PCM interrogation. His note does list the ohms, etc. of the leads and that no changes were made. It was my understanding that to bill a 93288, a separate report needs documented (much the way he can't bill an EKG interpretation and report - 93010 - just by mentioning what the tracing showed in his regular progress note). But I can't actually find anything documenting that it is required.
Any thoughts? TIA