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Section: |
Visits |
Number: |
V-31 |
Topic: |
Medical Visits & Associated Services |
Effective Date: |
March 12, 2001 |
Issued Date: |
March 12, 2001 |
Date Last Reviewed: |
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General Policy Guidelines
The services on the Text Attachment are considered an integral part of a doctor's medical or surgical care. They are not eligible as distinct and separate services when performed with medical or surgical care. |
Procedure Codes
15852 | 17250 | 20500 | 20690 | 21100 | 29130 |
29131 | 29200 | 29220 | 29240 | 29260 | 29280 |
29520 | 29530 | 29540 | 29550 | 29580 | 29590 |
31502 | 31505 | 32005 | 35400 | 36000 | 36400 |
36405 | 36406 | 36410 | 43752 | 43760 | 46600 |
50688 | 54235 | 54450 | 57150 | 57160 | 58350 |
65430 | 69210 | 87168 | 87169 | 91060 | 92100 |
92225 | 92226 | 92250 | 92260 | 92504 | 92511 |
94640 | 94760 | 94761 | 94762 | 95831 | 95832 |
95833 | 95834 | 95851 | 95852 | 95875 | 96902 |
97802 | 97803 | 97804 | 99050 | 99052 | 99054 |
99056 | 99070 | 99172 | 99173 | 99354 | 99355 |
99356 | 99357 | 99358 | 99359 | 99374 | 99375 |
99377 | 99378 | 99379 | 99380 | G0179 | G0180 |
G0181 | G0182 | S0820 | S9474 | | |
Traditional (UCR/Fee Schedule) Guidelines
FEP Guidelines
Ophthalmoscopy (92225, 92226, 92250, and 92260) may be paid in addition to medical care reported on the same day.
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Comprehensive/Wraparound/PPO Guidelines
Managed Care (HMO/POS) Guidelines
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Table Attachment
Text Attachment
Services
- Administration of IV Innovar
- Amsler Grid Test
- Analysis of data from Swan-Ganz Catheterization
- Anoscopy without biopsy (46600)
- Angioscopy (non-coronary vessels or grafts) during therapeutic intervention (35400)
- Application of external fixation system (20690)
- Application of halo type appliance for maxillofacial fixation, includes removal (21100)
- Application of splint (29130-29131)
- Application of traction, suspension, or corrective appliance (non-fracture care)
- Blood pressure check
- Blue field entoptoscopic exam
- Breast exam
- Brightness Acuity Test
- Canalith repositioning procedure (a.k.a., Epley maneuvers, Otolith repositioning)
- Care plan oversight services (99374-99380)
- Catheter site inspection by physician
- Changing of tubes
- connecting tube
- gastrostomy tube or button(43760)
- tracheostomy tube
- tracheotomy tube (31502)
- ureterostomy tube (50688)
- Chemical cauterization of granulation tissue (17250)
- Chemical pleurodesis (e.g., for recurrent or persistent pneumothorax) (32005)
- Corneal scrapings (65430)
- Corneal topography/corneal-assisted photokeratoscopy (S0820)
- Dressing change (for other than burns) under anesthesia (other than local) (15852)
- Ear/pulse oximetry (94760-94762)
- Enterostomal therapy (S9474)
- Eye tonometry (92100)
- Foreskin manipulation including lysis of preputial adhesions and stretching (54450)
- Gastric saline load test (91060)
- Grenz ray therapy
- Hydrotubation of oviduct (tubal lavage), including materials (58350)
- Injection of corpora cavernosa with pharmacologic agent(s), e.g., papaverine, phentolamine, etc. (54235)
- Injection of sinus tract (therapeutic) (20500)
- Insertion of pessary (57160)
- Irrigation and/or application of medicament for treatment of bacterial, parasitic, or fungoid disease (57150)
- IV infusion therapy, administered by physician or under direct supervision of physician
- IV therapy for severe or intractable allergic disease in physician's office or institution with theophyllines, corticosteroids, antihistamines (excludes cost of the drug)
- Laryngoscopy, indirect/mirror, without biopsy (31505)
- Laser interferometry or retinometry
- Macroscopic examination of arthropod or parasite (87168, 87169)
- Magnified penile surface scanning (penoscopy)
- Manual, gross visual fields
- Medical nutrition therapy (97802-97804)
- Microscopic examination of hairs plucked or clipped by the examiner (excluding hair collected by the patient) to determine telogen and anagen counts, or structural hair shaft abnormality (96902)
- Miller-Nadler Glare Test
- Muscle testing (95831-95834, 95851-95852, 95875)
- Naso- or oro-gastric tube placement, necessitating physician's skill (43752)
- Nasopharyngolaryngoscopy (indirect)
- Nasopharyngoscopy (92511)
- Nonpressurized inhalation treatment for acute airway obstruction (94640)
- Ophthalmodynamometry (92260)
- Ophthalmoscopy (92225, 92226)
- Otoscopy (no removal of foreign body)
- Phototherapy (for neonatal jaundice)
- Physician certification services for Medicare-covered services provided by a participating home health agency (patient not present)(G0180)
- Physician recertification services for Medicare-covered services provided by a participating home health agency (patient not present)(G0179)
- Physician supervision of a patient receiving Medicare-approved hospice (patient not present) requiring complex and multidisciplinary care modalities (G0182)
- Physician supervision of a patient receiving Medicare-covered services provided by a participating home health agency (patient not present) requiring complex and multidisciplinary care modalities (G0181)
- Placement of nasogastric feeding tube
- Potential acuity testing (visual)
- PAM (potential acuity meter)
- Guyton - Minkowski test
- visometer or retinometer
- macular integrity or electro-laser test
- Prolonged services (99354-99359)
- Prostatic massage
- Removal of cerumen (69210)
- Removal non-contraceptive pellets or capsules (FEP and Special Contracts
Only-Noncovered under Standard Contracts) - Rhinoscopy (no removal of foreign body)
- Schirmer test
- Screening test, visual acuity (99173)
- Slit lamp test (biomicroscopy, binocular microscopy and fluorescein staining) (92504)
- Special Services (99050-99056)
- Starting of an IV (See MPB G-16 for information on starting of an IV under the chemotherapy benefit) (36000)
- Stat charges for laboratory services
- Strapping of joint, including flexible, gel, and soft casts (29200-29280, 29520-29590)
- Supplies and materials (except spectacles), provided by the physician over and above those usually included with the office visit or other services rendered (99070)
- Telemetry
- Tuning fork test
- Venipuncture (36400-36410)
- Visual function screening, automated or semiautomated (99172)
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