After nearly 12 years of coding for primary care doctors, I have recently started coding for a cardiologist. So here is my question:
If the physician does a heart cath in a hospital setting, am I supposed to append modifier -26 to the procedure? If so, can someone explain to me why? Because the physician is the one that is actually performing the procedure, so why would he not also receive the technical portion of the procedure?
Also, what about other procedures that he does? Stenting, intravascular ultrasounds, etc?
If the physician does a heart cath in a hospital setting, am I supposed to append modifier -26 to the procedure? If so, can someone explain to me why? Because the physician is the one that is actually performing the procedure, so why would he not also receive the technical portion of the procedure?
Also, what about other procedures that he does? Stenting, intravascular ultrasounds, etc?