September 17, 2020 Question: I just signed up for your 2021 E/M webinar – I’m so excited!   Will these changes…

September 3, 2020 Question: I work with a neurosurgeon and we don’t see many Medicare patients. The neurosurgeon believes the…

August 20, 2020 Question: What if we have to re-program a VP shunt during the global period because the settings…

August 6, 2020 Question: How do I code for repair of a C6-7 fracture/dislocation where I did a laminectomy for…

July 23, 2020 Question: I did a craniotomy for removal of a tumor but it had a hemorrhagic component to…

July 9, 2020 Question: I placed subdural stereo-EEG electrodes for epilepsy monitoring. What is the code for removal of these…

June 25, 2020 Question: When placing pedicle screws, do I bill per pedicle screw or per level? For example, pedicle…

June 11, 2020 Question: I did a posterior lumbar fusion bilaterally. Can I bill 22612 with modifier 50 for bilateral…

May 28, 2020 Question: We are doing a combined case with ENT and are not sure how to code it.…

May 14, 2020 Question: Since we have to bring the patients back in for COVID testing and H&P for Joint Commission,…

April 30, 2020 Question: We cannot locate a response from any reliable coding resource about how to bill telephone calls…

April 16, 2020 Question: If the provider is working remotely from home (temporarily), what would the place of service (POS)…

April 2, 2020 Question: I heard that Medicare patients don’t have to pay their deductible or coinsurance if they have…

March 19, 2020 Question: For patients that are having surgery that day, I’ve been doing pre-op visits that morning (coming…

March 5, 2020 Question: I sent a patient out to the hospital for a CT scan and the patient brought…

February 20, 2020 Question: A couple of doctors asked me if they can bill for the cervical collar at the…

February 6, 2020 Question: Can we bill the 92242 for the indocyanine green video angiography we do with the pterional…

January 23, 2020 Question: Our Medicare specialist has advised us to add modifier XU (modifier 59) to CPT code 95970…

January 9, 2020 Question: We have a new physician who has joined our practice and is documenting use of cross…

December 19, 2019 Question: What would be the appropriate diagnosis code (ICD-10-CM) for “end of life battery” when we have…

December 5, 2019 Question: We had a patient show up in our office, after an MRI ordered by another physician,…

November 14, 2019 Question: I had to replace the ventricular catheter and the valve on a patient with a VP…

October 31, 2019 Question: I injected cement into the pedicles to augment screws in a patient with osteoporosis. My coder…

October 17, 2019 Question: I did bilateral laminectomies at T9, T10, T11 and removed an epidural tumor. I billed 63276-50,…

October 3, 2019 Question: We are just starting to do these procedures and I want to get our coding sorted…

September 19, 2019 Question: Can I code 95971 for intraoperative testing of the implantable pulse generator (IPG) when the spinal…

September 5, 2019 Question: I billed 63655 (Laminectomy for implantation of neurostimulator electrodes, plate/paddle, epidural) twice because I did laminectomies…

August 22, 2019 Question: Is it ever appropriate to bill 22513 with 3 units? Answer: CPT 22513 states Percutaneous vertebral…

August 8, 2019 Question: We are hiring a scribe for the doctor because it will help improve his documentation. Is…

July 25, 2019 Question: When our doctors replace a DBS generator because the battery is depleted and they reprogram at…