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The major risk of allergen immunotherapy is anaphylaxis; in rare cases, this can be fatal despite optimal management. Because most serious systemic reactions occur within 30 minutes after an injection, patients should remain in the physician’s office/medical clinic for at least 30 minutes after the immunotherapy injection. Therefore, allergen immunotherapy should be administered in a setting where anaphylaxis will be promptly recognized and treated by a physician or NPP appropriately trained in emergency treatment. For the safe and effective administration of allergen immunotherapy, the physician and personnel administering immunotherapy should be aware of the technical aspects of this procedure and have available appropriately trained personnel and resuscitative equipment/medicines. Evidence of such compliance should be documented and maintained in personnel files.
Home administration will only be considered in rare and exceptional cases when allergen immunotherapy cannot be administered in a medical facility and the benefit of allergen immunotherapy clearly outweighs the risk (e.g., VIT for a patient living in a remote area). Informed consent must be obtained from the patient. The person administering the injection to the patient must be educated about how to administer allergen immunotherapy and recognize and treat anaphylaxis. Recognition and treatment of an anaphylactic reaction might be delayed or less effective than in a clinical setting in which personnel, medications, supplies, and equipment are more optimal to promptly recognize and treat anaphylaxis. Frequent or routine prescription of home allergen immunotherapy is not appropriate. These rare cases will be reviewed through the individual consideration process with documentation review.
See Also:
Guidelines for Allergy Immunotherapy
Covered ICD lists
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Place of Service covered for Allergen Immunotherapy
The major risk of allergen immunotherapy is anaphylaxis; in rare cases, this can be fatal despite optimal management. Because most serious systemic reactions occur within 30 minutes after an injection, patients should remain in the physician’s office/medical clinic for at least 30 minutes after the immunotherapy injection. Therefore, allergen immunotherapy should be administered in a setting where anaphylaxis will be promptly recognized and treated by a physician or NPP appropriately trained in emergency treatment. For the safe and effective administration of allergen immunotherapy, the physician and personnel administering immunotherapy should be aware of the technical aspects of this procedure and have available appropriately trained personnel and resuscitative equipment/medicines. Evidence of such compliance should be documented and maintained in personnel files.
Home administration will only be considered in rare and exceptional cases when allergen immunotherapy cannot be administered in a medical facility and the benefit of allergen immunotherapy clearly outweighs the risk (e.g., VIT for a patient living in a remote area). Informed consent must be obtained from the patient. The person administering the injection to the patient must be educated about how to administer allergen immunotherapy and recognize and treat anaphylaxis. Recognition and treatment of an anaphylactic reaction might be delayed or less effective than in a clinical setting in which personnel, medications, supplies, and equipment are more optimal to promptly recognize and treat anaphylaxis. Frequent or routine prescription of home allergen immunotherapy is not appropriate. These rare cases will be reviewed through the individual consideration process with documentation review.
See Also:
Guidelines for Allergy Immunotherapy
Covered ICD lists
93280-26 Cardiac Pacemaker Programming Place of Service
We have some cardiac pacer programming done by Medtronic at our office. Medicare is denying for CO-5 procedure inconsistent with place of service. We have been billing this for the past many years and have not had any problems. Any suggestions?
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Place of Service Help
I have a place of service question for anyone who is able to help.
We have a provider who is looking to spend one day a month at another clinic’s facility and we will be renting the office space. We have no affiliations with this clinic and our office will being doing the billing.
Should we code the place of service as 11(Office) or 49(Independent Clinic)?
fqhc billing place of service
Hello everyone! i am new to FQHC billing. I live in the state of Alabama.
MY question is
our practice bills medicare medicaid and alot of commercial insurances. When we bill to medicare and medicaid how do we know whether to use place of service 50 (fqhc) or 11 (office).
Example ::: pt comes in with medicare and bcbs. does medicare go to place of service 50 and bcbs go to place of servie 11?
Example ::: medicare and medicaid. do we bill both with place of service 50 or medicare to 50 and medicaid to 11??
Does all commercial just go out with place of service 11???
Quite confused. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
Tina
Place of service for Nursing and assisted living facility
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Codes 99304 Through 99318
The CPT nursing facility services codes shall be used with POS 31 (skilled nursing facility or SNF) if the patient is in a Part A SNF stay. They shall be used with POS 32 (nursing facility) if the patient does not have Part A SNF benefits or if the patient is
in a NF or in a non-*‐covered SNF stay (e.g., there was no preceding three-*‐day hospital stay). The CPT NF code definition also includes POS 54 (intermediate care facility/mentally retarded) and POS 56 (psychiatric residential treatment center).
CPT Codes 99324 Through 99328 and 99334 Through 99337 :
Domiciliary, rest home (e.g., boarding home) or custodial care services are used to report Evaluation and Management (E/M) services to residents residing in a facility which provides room, board and other personal assistance services, generally on a long-*‐term basis. These CPT codes are used to report E/M services in facilities assigned POS codes 13 (assisted living facility), 14 (group home), 33 (custodial care facility), and 55 (residential substance abuse facility). Assisted living facilities may also be known as adult living facilities.
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Billing Place of Service
I have a question on what is the correct billing place of service if a patient is seen in the ER and taken to the operating room for an operation and is never admitted to the Hospital (Hospital A). After the patient has the operation the patient is then transferred to a different hospital (Hospital B). For the operation what is the correct place of service for billing- 23-ER or 22-Outpatient? Is there any documentation out there on this subject? Thank you in advance for any input. Annette
Group Practice Provider Seeing Patients in Different Place of Service.
We are a group practice that has a few Dr.’s, NP’s and PA’s in an outpatient mental health professional office setting.
If one of our PA’s or NP’s sees patients in a nursing home outside of the office setting for medication management (E/M) what CPT codes would be used and would there be modifiers needed?
In the office setting we would normally use the E/M codes, so would these still be used (99211-99215) with modifiers in the nursing home(assisted living facility)? Or should the nursing facility services codes be used? Which CPT codes should we be using?