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tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2017 Issue 7
Reader Question: Know When Transports Are Billable
Question: What should we report when we’re treating a patient who is being transported by EMS?
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Answer: In some situations, you can separately report the transport to or from another medical facility. The emergency physician is often involved in these transfers, but not all of that work is separately reportable from the E/M service that the ED physician reports.
If the ED physician provides medical direction via radio to EMS personnel
in the field, you should report 99288 (Physician or other qualified health care professional direction of emergency medical systems [EMS] emergency care, advanced life...
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