melheffley
Networker
I need some advice on how to bill an OB check (99213.TH) with the physician along with a fetal non-stress test (59025) on the same DOS. Some of our insurance carriers (mainly the Medicaids) require us to bill each OB check individually. Up until this point, we have been billing the office call and the fetal NST on the same day with no modifiers required (with no problems I might add). We just found that Paramount (one of our Mediciad Advantage plans here in Ohio) does not want to cover the office call with the NST on the same DOS without any modifiers. I guess my question is, is it right for us to bill the office call with the 25 modifier when there is a NST on the same day? Even when the NST and OC are scheduled to be done? NONE of our other carriers have given us this denial. As a side note, the NST is only done when the physician feels the patient is high risk and needs additional fetal monitoring ie. PIH or GDM.