tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 36

NEUROLOGY: 8 Tips For Full Intraoperative Monitoring Payment

Hint:  Surgeon and monitoring physician can't be the same personIf you're befuddled by intraoperative monitoring, you're not alone. The procedure has lots of elements that can confuse: You have to bill for baseline studies such as sleep EEG, EMG, nerve conduction studies or evoked potentials. And then you have to bill a time-based add-on code, CPT 95920 , in one-hour units. To help ease the task, our experts offer these straightforward tips: 1. Read the CPT book. The descriptor for 95920 includes a list of all the baseline studies codes that you can bill along with this code, advises Laureen...

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