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Re: Billing question From: Meenan, Anna (annam@uic.edu) Tue May 6 13:00:53 2008 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Teenage hotflashes postpartum" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Like a man" In reply to: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Re: Billing question" Next in thread: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Billing question" Reply: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Billing question" But if she presents just for that specific procedure, you cannot bill an office visit in addition to the procedure. Anna Meenan, MD >If during the course of your evaluation, you determine the need for a >procedure (an endometrial biopsy comes to mind), then you can bill the >E/M AND the procedure, with a modifier, I think. Lots of luck >collecting on it, however. > >That said, if someone came in for contraceptive counseling, and you >decided to put in an IUD, I bet that you could code it similarly with >the best of luck collecting. > >Garry > >At Tue, 6 May 2008, Lynn Montgomery wrote: >> >>Listers, >> >>I would like opinions regarding a billing question; when a patient >>presents for an office visit for an IUD insertion or colposcopy for >>example, is one allowed to bill an office visit in addition to the >>actual procedure being performed (i.e. 99203 for office visit and 58300 >>for IUD insertion). I have gotten different answers from various >>coders, including ACOG! >> >>Lynn >> >>-- >>Lynn D. Montgomery, M.D. >> >>Obstetrics & Gynecology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine >> >>The Birth Center/Rocky Mountain Women's Health >> >>1211 S. Reserve St. >> >>Missoula, Montana, 59801 >> >>406-549-0978 >> >>fax 406-549-0987 >> >>e-mail: apgar10@thebirthcentermt.com >> > >-- >Garry E. Siegel, M.D. >Private Practice >Roswell, GA Next message: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Teenage hotflashes postpartum" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Like a man" In reply to: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Re: Billing question" Next in thread: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Billing question" Reply: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Billing question"

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