surgical component question

tom0852 · Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 2

can a hospital include a surgical component in addition to a CT biopsy with a technical modifer when preforming ct biopsies? -
The radiologist is already charging for the professional component and surgical component.

hjhogle · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:49 am Post subject:

You might want to include your state when you post this kind of question.

tom0852 · Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 2

the state is NJ - does that matter? i didn't realize cpt books were state specific. Thanks for reading it tho- any thoughts?

sbuck · Joined: 22 Apr 2008 Posts: 7 Location: Stuart, FL

The hospital should be reporting both the surgical and radiological components to capture their resources used.
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