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Date of service for remote device interrogation
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Our office had a remote interrogation come into the office over the weekend, and we are not technically open on the weekend. The interrogation was recorded on Saturday and interpreted the following Monday. The codes assigned were 93294 and 93296. What date of service should be assigned for these CPT codes, particularly when the remote interrogation (93293-93299) is received on one day and the interpretation is signed on another day? Going one step further, for the in-person interrogations (93279-93292), we are using the date of the encounter/interrogation/reprogramming as the DOS as opposed to the date the interpretation was signed. Is that correct?
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