March 16, 2023 Question: In 2023 will the level of service be determined by history, exam and medical decision making…

February 16, 2023 Question: What is the difference between an implant and a foreign body? Answer: On page 74 of…

January 19, 2023 Question: We have a patient with 2 commercial payers (BCBS and Cigna). A consultation code was submitted…

December 15, 2022 Question: I am a contracted physician with a group practice (Practice A) in our town. I have…

November 17, 2022 Question: Can I bill an office visit in the global period if the diagnosis is different from…

October 20, 2022 Question: My coder just told me that for Office E/M services I no longer have to document…

September 22 2022 Question: Can I use modifiers on an unlisted code? What about global period modifiers such as 58,…

August 25, 2022 Question: We have been reporting CPT code 64625 with 3 units when we perform a radiofrequency ablation…

July 28, 2022 Question: I did a left hip intraarticular steroid injection and used fluoroscopic guidance. Can I report the…

June 30, 2022 Question: We just recently began hiring PAs to see patient to assist our pain physicians. Our pain…

June 2, 2022 Question: We are going to begin using remote therapeutic monitoring in our pain practice to monitor our…

May 5, 2022 Question: What code do use when our pain doctor sees a patient in the emergency department for…

April 7, 2022 Question: My physician billed implanted a neurostimulator into the sacral nerve for urinary incontinence. We billed CPT…

March 24, 2022 Question: When determining if an illness is chronic versus acute is it based on how long the…

March 10, 2022 Question: One of our pain management physicians saw a patient the first time in our office. We…

February 24, 2022 Question: If a patient has one stable chronic illness and one acute uncomplicated illness without systemic symptoms,…

February 10, 2022 Question: I did an inpatient consultation and coded 99253 (non-Medicare). I did not need to follow the…

January 27, 2022 Question: I heard that Medicare patients don’t have to pay their deductible or coinsurance if they have…

December 30, 2021 Question: I am trying to find the diagnosis code for vertebrogenic low back pain. Can you help?…

December 16, 2021 Question: We are using the 2021 E/M guidelines in the office and in most cases base the…

December 2, 2021 Question: We are hiring a scribe for the doctor because it will help improve his documentation. Is…

November 11, 2021 Question: We live in a northern state and frequently have patients who travel to warmer clients during…

October 28, 2021 Question: I heard that a medical assistant who enters the patient’s medications into the electronic health record…

October 14, 2021 Question: I’ve been dictating CPT and ICD-10-CM codes in my procedure note so that my coder knows…

September 30, 2021 Question: I was told to use 0230T for a tranforaminal epidural injection (S1)with ultrasound. I sent to…

September 16, 2021 Question: A patient with multiple sclerosis came into our pain clinic with spasms to the left and…

September 2, 2021 Question: My doctor did a regional thoracic nerve block. He performed three injections at three intercostals levels.…

August 19, 2021 Question: One of my pain management physicians performed a trigger point into the 1 muscle and the…

August 5, 2021 Question: What CPT code would you use for “anesthetic and steroid injection of the left posterior superior…

July 22, 2021 Question: I am trying to find a CPT code for an Epidural Adhesiolysis. Can you tell what…