tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 23

Don't Paint A Bulls-Eye On Your Moderate Sedation Claims

Watch out: You can't bill moderate sedation codes 99143-99145 and 99148-99150 in the same session with any code that has a -target- symbol next to it, says Michael Granovsky, president of MRSI in Woburn, MA. These -targeted- codes, which are listed in Appendix G of your CPT book, already include moderate sedation. CPT puts the -target- on these codes for a specific reason, says Barbara Johnson, owner of Real Code in Moreno Valley, CA. -They don't feel that it's something should be done without some kind of moderate sedation and so it's going to be going to be built...

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