tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 41

FAMILY PRACTICE: Don't Be Afraid To Bill 99211 For Interpreting TB Skin Tests

At around $20 a pop, payment for visits can add upPatients routinely come back to your office to have a nurse interpret the results of their tuberculosis skin tests. You bill for administering the test on an earlier date, so why not bill for interpretation? It can work.Coders fear that if they bill a level-one office visit (CPT 99211 ) for the TB skin test interpretation, Medicare will deny the claim. But the American Academy of Family Physicians has supported billing 99211 on a couple of different occasions, according to Lisa Center, a professional coder with Mount Carmel...

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