Coding
One Diagnosis and Modifier -25: Appropriate or Audit Target?
An established patient comes into your office with a painful new lesion on the hand. He thinks it may be a wart. You take a focused history of the...
Final Thoughts
Phototherapy is a critical treatment modality that continues to be utilized frequently in the expanding armamentarium of treatments for dermatoses. Phototherapy is performed almost exclusively by dermatologists and allows dermatologists to offer a unique level of care and value in the treatment of skin disease. Careful documentation, a written standard operating procedure, and adherence to proper performance standards will allow dermatologists to be compensated fairly for this important treatment modality and pass audits that are likely to occur.
