Our billing service does not bill surgeries without the operative to cya from a financial stand point (don't want to miss codes or miscode) and from a liability stand point. We have a physician trying to insist that we code based off a very abbreviated description of the services that he sends us in emails in order to get his billing out faster. He is not consistent with dictating his operatives so I am concerned this will put us in a bad position legally if we were audited.
Is there some documentation we can use to convince the physician that billing without the dictated operative is not smart or legal? I have to have something to back up what we tell him when we reject his request....please help!
Is there some documentation we can use to convince the physician that billing without the dictated operative is not smart or legal? I have to have something to back up what we tell him when we reject his request....please help!