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Hospital owned space-MFM private practice

The specialist is in a private practice but uses a hospital owned space for the Initial Consultation & subsequent E/M visits. The POS was being billed as 11 but the biller was directed to change the POS to 22. The technical component for the US is billed with the 26 modifier as the equipment is the hospital equipment with the same issue applied to the POS.
Which is correct for the provider billing, 11 or 22?

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Cardic Stress Test (93017) with MPI (78542)in hospital owned Physicians office

Hello I am a Cardiac Administrator and I am looking for some insight on physician billing for a Cardiac treadmill Stress test with a Nuc Med MPI Scan performed in a physician’s office.

We are currently in the process of acquiring a physician group that currently performs these services in their office. We are purchasing the group and all the equipment and the physicians will still perform these procedures in their office. Could you provided some recommendations on how this will now be billed since all physicians, staff and equipment will be hospital owned? Additionally we are considering using a Nuc Med mobile services while we update the scanners in the building. I would appreciate your insight on how this differs from procedures being performed in an outpatient setting in a hospital.

My initial thoughts are that the hospital owned physician’s office will bill 93016 and 93018 and 75842-26 for their services and the facility would bill 93017 and 75842-TC.

I would appreciate any feedback. I like to get perspective from different sources.

Thank you

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Physician owned labs

We have partnered with Quest, and have a physician owned lab. We are being told to bill as “office” place of service as opposed to “independent lab.” We have gone back and forth with our billing but our physicians want to see how other physician owned labs are billing. Billing with the office place of service is causing copays to be assigned against the lab work and patients do not get a copay if quest is running the lab tests because they are an independent lab.

Is this happening with your patients? How are you billing for these services?

Thanks

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Facility fee denials for gastro procedures in our physician owned ASC

I am hoping to get some input/advice..

We are being denied ALL of our facility fee charges for our ASC from Medicaid due to "Taxonomy codes not supporting our CPTs."
Our ASC is billing out with the taxonomy code for ambulatory surgery center, and a rep from Medicaid tells me that we should be using the taxonomy code for Gastroenterology.
We are managed by a large corporation, and they are insisting that the gastroenterology taxonomy code is not needed, and that I should be billing out with a TC and 26 modifier instead.

any input would be greatly appreciated!!!

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