12. Submissions at variance with conditionals enumerated in “Coding Guidelines” and “Documentation Requirements” will be denied on review. 13. Submit services for the contrast material on the same claim or on the same date of service as the echocardiogram. ...
Besides payments for office visits, the site-neutral approach would also affect tests that are often performed in physician offices, such as echocardiograms. Medicare pays far more for these tests when they're done in an HOPD than when they're performed outside of a hospital. The same is t...
Health care utilization variables including cardiologist care, endocrinologist care, neurologist care, number of evaluation and management visits, hospitalization for any cause, cardiac stress test, echocardiogram, and electrocardiogram.Several pre-specified variables were based on published claims-based definiti...