Anecdotally some dermatologists I've talked to would set up a separate "procedure only day." Many PCPs in my area who perform biopsies already schedule separate "procedure visits" for biopsies. This has the following ethical considerations:
1. Patients may need to take extra time off work (2 days instead of 1 day).
2. While most would (probably correctly) argue that delaying a biopsy by <5 days would have negligible risk on progression of a suspected skin cancer, would this result in an...
If modifier 25 is slashed, ethical implications
1. Patients may need to take extra time off work (2 days instead of 1 day).
2. While most would (probably correctly) argue that delaying a biopsy by <5 days would have negligible risk on progression of a suspected skin cancer, would this result in an...
If modifier 25 is slashed, ethical implications