Neurology Nuts and Bolts: Constructing Your Career

Finances of Practice: Outpatient Billing

September 09, 2022 Sara Schaefer Season 1 Episode 20
Neurology Nuts and Bolts: Constructing Your Career
Finances of Practice: Outpatient Billing
Show Notes

Sara Schaefer gets into the details of outpatient billing and coding including time vs. medical decision-making based billing, current procedural terminology (CPT) codes, modifiers, diagnostic codes, what happens on the insurance company end, and strategies to bill correctly but maximally for your practice. Guests Marc Nuwer, Neurophysiology Department Head at UCLA and member of the CPT and Relative Value Update Committee (RUC) Advisory Panels, and Rohit Marawar, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Wayne State University. Disclaimer: This podcast is an overview. Billing and coding rules depend on your state and the insurance company of the patient. Confer with your own billing department for details.