DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2019 Issue 9 (September)

Not worth it: Codes wrongly bundled with blood draws pay too well to trifle with

Auditors emphasize the amount of improper payments attributed to common venipuncture code 36415 with bundled codes in 2018. But it’s also worth noting that the codes with which 36415 may have been improperly claimed generally pay more — and it’s really not worth potentially gumming up your claims on those codes for a small extra payment on a blood draw.

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