[Channa95]

I understand that a CPM must be applied within 2 days of surgery, and is billable for a total of 21 days as long as there is no break in service. My question is what if the hospital puts the pt. on a CPM for the 2 days the patient is in the hospital, and then the supplier gives them one for home? How will this affect the billing and is this possible?

Also, how do you bill for those days? I understand the modifiers and that you must have the admit date, when cpm was applied and discharge date, but how do you bill for say 18 days? I am assuming it would be a span date.

We are about to start providing these machines and I want to make sure I understand all of this. Thank you so much for any responses!

[ylbms]

So basically you would have to enter the DOS-date of sugery, OD-onset date/start cpm, DOD-date of discharge, and ICD-9 diagnosis V43.65 in the item claim note section-for Brightree. So since we switched to BT we haven't figured out how we can get the dates to be different and the days entered-I think it has to be configured with the particular item. So we haven't billed yet. But yes the dates have to be different and the NOS would be however many days is remaining-you stated that he used it for the 2 days while in the hospital so only 19 days can be billed for by the supplier