Any info would be greatly appreciated.
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Pain Pump Refill Coding
Can anyone help with if all these are fine being billed under J7799 or J3490? I have been told that once they are mixed with something else even the Saline, they become a compound drug and for the pump they should be billed under one of these codes.
Thank you
Pain Management and Behavioral Health together?
My initial thought is to only bill for the MD since this is only one visit. Do any other Behavioral Health clinics work with a pain management program?
Billing Pain Management with Behavioral Health
My initial thought is to only bill for the MD since this is only one visit.
Arthrocentesis (hip injection for pain) with 73501
Busted! Florida “Pain Management” Clinic Runs an Opioid Pill Mill
Another opioid pill mill gets busted by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force. A “pain management clinic” in Hialeah, Florida, owned by David Bosch and Tania Sanchez, which operated under the name East Medical Office Inc., unlawfully distributed thousands of pills of oxycodone, during the period of April 2017-May 2018. It was a cash-only clinic, which remained […]
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Coding Tooth pain
What/is there a correct billing procedure/code/dx combo that work (that Medicare will not deny for being a "dental service not covered by Medicare") for a pt. going to ER for tooth pain relief? Thank you!
Pain Pump Replacement???
I infiltrated the area of the abdomen with 10mL of local anesthetic, bupivicaine 0.5%, then we used an 11 blade and made a transverse incision over the old incision and then I used a sharp and blunt dissection. I was able to expose the pump, then I aspirated from the catheter access port to the pump and that produced free flow of clear CSF. Then I made a sharp and blunt dissection to re-position the pump more anterior so it does not rub over the left ASIS which is one of the patient’s main complaints. Then I connected the catheter to the new pump. I secured the pump to the abdominal fascia using 2-1 Tycron, 3 stitches were taken into the abdominal fascia. Then I irrigated all the incisions. I closed the subcutaneous tissue with 2-0 Vicryl followed by 3-0 Vicryl followed by 3-0 Novafil.
He wants to code 62360, but I’m going more towards 62362 with the re-position being inclusive as he didn’t make a different incision to re-position the pump, just deeper in the same pocket. Am I correct in this rational???
Thank you
Local Anesthesia code for pain management procedures
and for joint and bursa injection – 20610 , 20605 do I code local anesthesia seperately , 3 ml of 1% Lidocaine. ?? And Provider uses fluroscopy so do I code
for ex : left shoulder joint injection – 12 mg betamethasone
20610 – LT
77002 – 59
J0702 x 4
(What about Anesthesia)
Lower Back Pain Code
LBP [lower back pain] c̅ L3-L4 levoscoliosis, c̅ (R) radiculopathy + retro/anterolisthesis
How would you code it? And why those codes?