Problem 1: What is Concomitant Care?
Problem 2: What services can a doctor charge cash for doing, or having done? List three.
Problem 3: If a doctor is in the office, at home, or somewhere else and he is called to the emergency department to see a patient on a consult; what can he bill just for going to the hospital?
Problem 4: What if that same doctor gets called out on a Saturday morning at 2:00 AM?
Problem 5: What is the difference between a complete checkup and a regional visit?
Problem 6: What is the difference between a consult and a complete check-up?
Problem 7: What is the difference between a regional visit and a subsequent visit?
Problem 8: Under Surgical Rules, what does an asterisk (*) mean in billing a procedure?
Problem 9: When billing for a general physician, what is the code difference between a
- 20-year-old young woman's complete physical with cancer screening and a
- 72-year-old older women's complete physical with cancer screening?
Problem 10: What tariff code would an Ear, Nose and Throat doctor use to remove a coin from a child's nose, while in the office setting?
Problem 11: What tariff code would a Cardiac Surgeon charge for a pulmonary artery, banding while in the operating room?
Problem 12: What tariff code would a Gastroenterologist use to do an Esophagoscopy with foreign body removal in a hospital setting?
Problem 13: What tariff code would an Urologist use to do a biopsy of the prostate with a needle and without cystoscopy?
Problem 14: What tariff code would a Gynecologist use to do a removal of an impacted I.U.D. in the office?
Problem 15: What tariff code would an eye surgeon use to perform a biopsy on the conjunctiva of the eye?