zwomack
New
Dr. E goes to an outreach clinic, the outreach does the 76816 TC portion on the 5th (date of the appointment). Dr. E comes back to his clinic and does the "read" on the 7th. What date is used for billing the "read" the 5th or 7th.
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Wiki billing for the read of ob ultrasound 76816
Pam Warren
True Blue
Check with your contractor. Ours allows either. Since the 'read' is the professional portion (reported with the -26), you'd report the date of the read. But again...payers vary on this.
CodingKing
True Blue
I think Medicare needs to make a decision to follow the same rules for Labs where date of patient encounter dictates service date. Someone posted recently had a problem where it was a test limited to 1x 30 days and since they used the dictation date it denied due to a frequency limitation. Had they used the TC date it would not have been an issue.
zwomack
New
Thanks for the help. Z