Q: We started providing allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplants on an outpatient basis for some of our patients. Until just recently, none of them were Medicare patients, but now we have some patients that meet the physician-established criteria for the transplant being done as an outpatient. How do we include this on the claim to ensure that the cost of all components of this service are reported?
Q: We have one older radiology machine that still uses film. We are working on replacing it and don’t use it very much. Is there anything special that we need to do when reporting studies done on “old faithful”?
Q: We just finished our annual CPT® review for our chargemaster changes and we noticed that there are new moderate sedation codes for 2017. The code descriptions are similar, but now we don’t know when we should report the moderate sedation. Moderate sedation has run the gamut from instructions to "report separately" and “don’t report separately,” and we don’t know what to do at this point.
