tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 4

You Be the Coder: Understand How to Submit 31625 and 31645 Together

Question: What would be the correct way to bill 31624 and 31645? Should we use modifier 51 or 59 with these codes? Texas Subscriber Answer: The descriptors for codes 31624 and 31645 read as follows:    31624: Bronchoscopy, rigid or flexible, including fluoroscopic guidance, when performed; with therapeutic aspiration of tracheobronchial tree, initial (eg, drainage of lung abscess)   31645: Bronchoscopy, rigid or flexible, including fluoroscopic guidance, when performed; with bronchial alveolar lavage.   These codes can be billed separately as they are not bundled according to coding edits. Neither modifier 51 (Multiple procedures) nor 59 (Distinct procedural service)...

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