reimbursement for procedures (PICC)

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Does anyone know how much a hospital/physician gets paid to insert a PICC line using ultrasound or fluro? thanks

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Does anyone know how much a hospital/physician gets paid to insert a PICC line using ultrasound or fluro? thanks

Depends on the insurance carrier you can search medicare by cpt codes at: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PFSLookup/ you can look at global, proffesional and technical reinbursement.

Check out codes

36569 picc

77001 xray guidance

76942 us guidance

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Specializes in ACNP-BC, Adult Critical Care, Cardiology.

A team of RN's do bedside PICC placements at our hospital using ultrasound-guidance. Any PICC's they couldn't insert gets turfed to Interventional Radiology. Would this link help? http://www.bostonscientific.com/templatedata/imports/collateral/Radiology/rmbgde_PICC%20QA%2010_2006_01_us.pdf

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Specializes in Critical Care, ICU, ER.

I always did wonder about this .. Thanks for posting the code manual also. That will help in other areas!

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This is a great site, thanks. Can you help me understand it? LOL There is the facility charge, the facility limiting charge and the conversion factor. Do I add the facility charge and the conversion factor today to get the payment amount or do I subtract the conversion factor from the facility charge? Thanks.

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Our team of NPs place PICCS, central lines, a-lines, quintons, etc for our hospital. For PICCs, I believe it's around $420 per line.

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