tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2005 Issue 8

Reader Questions: 36415 Now Describes Venipuncture

Question: How should I report routine venipuncture to Medicare?California Subscriber Answer: You should report 36415 (Collection of venous blood by venipuncture) to Medicare for your surgeon's routine venipuncture procedures. For 2005, CMS deleted G0001 (Routine venipuncture for collection of specimen[s]).When reporting 36415, be sure to watch your reimbursement. In the 2005 HCPCS update file released late last year, Medicare gave 36415 a status indicator of "X," meaning the agency would not pay for the code. But that was a mistake, according to a CMS transmittal released on Nov. 5, 2004."[C]ode 36415 has now been activated...

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