11/03/2009
Help The doctor that I work for performed a shoulder arthroscopy synovectomy debridement SLAP tear repair subacromial decompression and an arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. I cannot find the cpt code in the WC Fee Schedule for the "arthroscopic" rotator cuff repair. Any ideas
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05/14/2010
there was not one...so bill it as miscellaneous then they have to justify why they don't pay your U&C....penny wise and pound foolish stupidity..
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08/28/2013
Jon you describe CPT 95852 as grip strength testing but the code seems to be defined as ROM of the hand. Aren't these two different things
Also when billing 95851 for each extremity is it 2 units for the left and right upper extremities or just 1
Thanks
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05/31/2016
Reading the Coventry contract it is silent on 3rd party arbitration. It only speaks to dispute resolution and arbitration against Coventry itself not against a payer therefore IBR would control. A specific date of service is one week of FRP billed with one CPT code with 5 units.
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03/11/2014
The Arizona Industrial Commission proposed updates to the sections of its Physician's and Pharmaceutical Fee Schedule to propose an average 5 increase in payments for surgery radiology and special service codes.
The fee schedule changes were proposed after a comparison of payments in Arizona to
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01/28/2005
industry stakeholders including Insurance Departments carriers affected employers and trade associations.
Each year NCCI will prepare a research plan identifying the codes to be reviewed that year. The research plan will be based on input from the following sources
Analysis of NCCI data to
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05/11/2005
in partnership with various industry stakeholders including Insurance Departments carriers affected employers and trade associations.
Each year NCCI will prepare a research plan identifying the codes to be reviewed that year. The research plan will be based on input from the following
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03/12/2013
The Industrial Commission of Arizona will hold a public hearing in April to discuss proposed changes to its fee schedule that would increase payments for surgery codes physical medicine codes and evaluation and management codes.
The Industrial Commission is proposing increases to the value for
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01/15/2015
before the states Workers Compensation Agency. Last month the WCA adopted an update to the fee schedule that included updates to Medicares most current relative value units. The agency said that as a result it expects costs for the top 10 CPT codes to fall by 1.6.
Conor Brockett associate
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03/25/2009
Workers comp codes and private codes are vastly different because the codes for worker comp have not been update i believe in more than ten years. I would have who ever i think Blue Cross in this instatnce is claim the right to money to recode the procedure into workers comp codes. Trying to
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