Q: Is there a national standard for what documentation must be submitted to Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) when requesting prior authorization?
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.
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 professional E/M to a 1500?
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?
Q: Are disposable instrumentation tools, those typically used in endoscopic or cardiac procedures, considered integral to the procedure or are they separately chargeable?
