tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2008 Issue 4

Reader Questions: Wound Culture Offers Many Options

Question: How should I bill for a wound culture? My physician may be seeing a patient postoperatively and decide to take a wound culture in the office. Is this considered post-op care and not billable? Specifically, how should I bill for a culture done in the office if a patient comes in for nipple discharge? My physician will extract a sample of the discharge and send it to pathology. Should I just bill the E/M code, or can I bill the culture as well? Arizona Subscriber Answer: To provide a certain answer, you-d have to provide more information about...

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