I was wondering how others deal with referral, coding and billing for follow-up fetal anatomy surveys. The situation is a patient comes in for a fetal anatomy survey, either routine screening 76805 or detailed, with appropriate indication, 76811. The anatomy survey is incomplete and we suggest a follow-up to complete. The way our practice has dealt with this is to schedule the follow-up before the patient leaves then ask for the original referring physician to sign off on an order for the follow-up scan. At one time we were coding and billing for the follow-up as a 76816, we recently switched to the code 76815. I am wondering how others handle the situation.
Bill
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Wiliam Curtin MD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pathology
Pennstate Milton S Hershey Medical Center
Hershey, PA
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