sparkles1077
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Hello,
Just wanted to get some coding opinions on this one. Patient presents to a large multispecialty hospital based practice. Patient has an appointment with cardiology, but the appointment scheduler accidentally scheduled patient with orthopedics. Patient shows up to see orthopod who sees the patient anyway since they are there but patient has no orthopedic problems. Othopod bills a low level service for seeing the patient.
Would you question medical necessity and consider this unbillable?
Thank you
Just wanted to get some coding opinions on this one. Patient presents to a large multispecialty hospital based practice. Patient has an appointment with cardiology, but the appointment scheduler accidentally scheduled patient with orthopedics. Patient shows up to see orthopod who sees the patient anyway since they are there but patient has no orthopedic problems. Othopod bills a low level service for seeing the patient.
Would you question medical necessity and consider this unbillable?
Thank you