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Billing Ionto for 2 body parts - October 23, 2006 11:31:00 AM
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VagusX
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From: Savannah, GA, USA
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Greetings
I have read that ionto is an attended modality. If I am correct, I would need to spend 23 minutes discussing Ionto with my patient to bill 2 units(not going to happen.) So If I ionto a patient with Plantarfasciitis and Carpal Tunnel at the same time, and I only talk about ionto for 8 minutes I can only charge 1 unit?
Can somebody help direct me to the section at the APTA website that discusses billing scenerios. I haven't been able to find much.
Thanks
Dan
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Re: Billing Ionto for 2 body parts - October 23, 2006 1:28:00 PM
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SJBird55
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Dan, for a Medicare patient being billed through Medicare B, you would need to spend 8-23 minutes to charge for one unit of iontophoresis. If you wanted to know if you would be paid, you would probably need to look at the ionto procedural code and see if the diagnosis code you are using is listed for the ionto procedural code.
If I have a patient that had a diagnosis of plantar fascitis and a diagnosis of carpal tunnel, then I would treat that patient as though that patient were actually 2 people. One claim form gets submitted for the plantar fascitis diagnosis code and a separate claim form gets submitted for the carpal tunnel diagnosis code. The patient has 2 charts/files with documentation in each to support whatever is billed for services for the dates of service for each diagnosis code.
I believe you'll find billing scenarios on the home page of the APTA under Reimbursement or Medicare.
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Re: Billing Ionto for 2 body parts - October 24, 2006 3:04:00 AM
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ehanso
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Assuming you can get paid by medicare B for Ionto which does not happen i portions of Minnesota.
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