tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2006 Issue 11

'After-Hours' Rules Changed -- Have You Kept Pace?

Unscheduled visits could call for special coding, increased paymentWhen you offer services at nontraditional hours, CPT 2006 provides special codes to fit your situation. The code you use depends on whether you provide standard office hours or are open evenings and weekends.CPT revamped the special services, procedures and reports subsection. -The new and revised codes give coders more options to describe the services their practice provides,- says Kim Kieke, CPC, a coding quality specialist at a multispecialty clinic with more than 60 physicians in Austin, Texas. Here are four tips for putting these new tools to good...

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