Billing OVs with Medicare injections for Orthopedics

[heatherweinmaster@gmail.com]

For Orthopedics,

For Visco supplementation injections which occur once a week for 5 weeks with the same diagnosis code, can an OV be billed on each visit? The physician does document a physical exam, but the diagnosis code is osteoarthritis.

Thanks

 

[mitchellde]

If the purpose of the encounter is for the injection, then you will not meet the criteria to bill an E&M as distinct and separately identifiable.