Medical billing, a payment process in the united states healthcare system, is the process of reviewing a patient's medical records and using information about their diagnoses and procedures to determine which services are billable and to whom they are billed. At the medical center, a physician dismissed the symptoms as a reaction to the steroid medication she had been prescribed, misdiagnosing her with gynecomastia, a condition typically seen in men. The appropriate use of a modifier allows these code pair to be reported together
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These modifiers must be supported by documentation in the medical record
These code pairs should never be reported together, regardless of modifiers.
The acronym hcpcs originally stood for hcfa common procedure coding system, a medical billing process used by the centers for medicare and medicaid services (cms) Prior to 2001, cms was known as the health care financing administration (hcfa) Hcpcs was established in 1978 to provide a standardized coding system for describing the specific items and services provided in the delivery of health. Balance billing, sometimes called surprise billing, is a medical bill from a healthcare provider billing a patient for the difference between the total cost of services being charged and the amount the insurance pays
