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Medical Billing CPT 99000

Medical Billing CPT 99000, Handling and/or conveyance of specimen for transfer from the physician's office to a laboratory," is intended to be reported when the practice incurs costs to handle and/or transport a specimen to a lab.

In Medical Billing CPT 99000 is used when the work involved in the preparation of a specimen prior to sending it to the laboratory. 
We cannot consider CPT 99000 for venipuncture for that we have to use CPT 36415
Most of the insurance including Medicare considering CPT 99000 as bundled procedure in other words CPT 99000 is not a separately payable CPT.
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  1. UnknownApril 5, 2014 at 2:33 AM

    Thanks for sharing a valuable information. The Specialists Accounts Receivables team should have qualities to find out the cause of denial claims and then corrects it in order to support the growth of Medical Billing Services organizations.

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  2. UnknownApril 27, 2014 at 7:38 AM

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