Wiki Nurse performs 51700 or 51720 Parsons bladder instillation

[snoll]

Can this be billed if a nurse performs the bladder instillation? The code definition states "physician."

 

[csperoni]

I believe if it is within your employed nurse's scope of practice, and performed incident-to, then this would be billed under the physician

 

[liqgold2@aol.com]

The 2021 CPT manual does not contain the word "physician" for 51700 or 51720. A nurse may perform 51700 for the Parson's cocktail or 51720 for the instillation of an anticarcinogenic agent such a BCG or Mitomycin on the basis of a physician's order. The physician must be in the office suite when these services are performed by a nurse. Billing will be in the supervising physician's name and numbers.