tci Part B Insider - 2020 Issue Q4

Part B Coding Coach: Master Sleep Test Coding With These Quick Steps

Tip: Check out CPT® section guidelines for coding clarity. During outpatient sleep studies, a physician might administer a variety of services from electroencephalogram (EEG) additions to cardiac rhythm recordings. Reporting these procedures can be challenging, but you can improve your coding accuracy by understanding a few basics about the services, codes, and modifiers involved. Here’s what they are: Sleep studies and polysomnography (PSM) refer to continuous and simultaneous monitoring and recording of various physiological and pathophysiological parameters of sleep for six or more hours with physician review, interpretation, and report. These studies help providers assess whether patients have...

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