Wiki Need Help ASAP! Gentamicin w/Bladder Instillation

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Our Urologist has initiated Gentamicin Injections with a Bladder Instillation. We bill this with 51700 and J1580 2 units. This is great when the Urologist does a face to face and documents the procedure.

Here's the rub...I have charges from the nurse using those same codes. No Urologist documentation. Patient only saw the nurse.

Am I correct that the nurse can only charge a 99211 for this encounter? I want to be sure I'm thinking correctly before I start WWIII.

Please help!

Susan Patch, CPC
 
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