Q: Can a hospital bill for a nutritionist and a dietitian deliver diabetes self-management training (DSMT) via telehealth on a UB claim? Nutritionists and dietitians are on the list of distant site practitioners, although registered nurses are not.Read More »
Q: As our organization provides telephone and telemedicine encounters for services, we are considering using Q3014 for our provider-based departments in addition to the professional E/M. Does anyone have any experience with this code? If provider-based, are you applying this to a UB and the...Read More »
Q: Is there a condition code or process we can perform on a corrected claim to show that an inpatient readmission within 30 days is not related to the previous inpatient claim?Read More »
Q: Are disposable instrumentation tools, those typically used in endoscopic or cardiac procedures, considered integral to the procedure or are they separately chargeable?Read More »
Q: I'm told, although I'm not convinced, that our payment for Keytruda is denied by Anthem when we use Z51.11 (encounter for antineoplastic chemotherapy) first followed by the code for cancer, i.e. C34.12 (malignant neoplasm of upper lobe, left bronchus or lung). I reviewed the coding guidelines...Read More »
