Can I bill these two codes together?

Billable when the visit was a separately identifiable evaluation beyond the routine work the injection includes. Append modifier 25 to the E/M. If the note reads like the setup for the injection, it bundles with CO-97. Full rules in the modifier 25 explainer.

Yes, with modifier 25 on the E/M when a separate problem was evaluated. Bill the drug separately with its J-code. Routine injection-only visits do not support a separate E/M.

Yes, when a significant problem is addressed during the physical. Bill the preventive code and the problem E/M with modifier 25. Both diagnoses should be documented distinctly.

Yes. Bill the annual wellness visit and a medically necessary problem E/M with modifier 25 on the E/M. This is one of the most common legitimate uses of modifier 25 in primary care.

Only if a separate problem beyond the routine foot care was evaluated, with modifier 25 on the E/M. A visit for the foot care alone does not support a separate office visit. See the podiatry billing guide.

No. These are two levels of the same office-visit family. One provider, one encounter, one level, chosen by medical decision making or total time. You do not stack E/M levels.

No. Pick one psychotherapy code by the documented time: 90832 is 16 to 37 minutes, 90834 is 38 to 52, 90837 is 53 or more. See the mental health billing guide.

Yes. 90785 is an add-on reported with the psychotherapy code, never alone, and only when a real communication barrier is present (a young child, an interpreter, a court-involved third party). Routine use is an audit flag.

Yes. 17000 is the first lesion, 17003 each additional lesion from the 2nd through the 14th. At 15 or more lesions, use 17004 alone, not 17000 plus fourteen units of 17003.

Yes, and as of 2025 you can bill G2211 even when the E/M carries modifier 25 for a same-day wellness visit, vaccine, or Part B preventive service. Before 2025, that combination was blocked, which is why older guidance says otherwise.

97140 bundles into 97530 under NCCI. Billable together only when they were distinct services (a separate 15-minute block or a different region), with modifier 59 or XS on the column-two code. Otherwise the second denies with CO-97 or CO-236. See the therapy billing guide.

97140 on the same region as the manipulation is bundled and not separately payable. A different region can be billed with modifier 59 or XS, documented. For Medicare, 97140 is non-covered for a chiropractor regardless. See the chiropractic billing guide.

Yes, when they are genuinely separate lesions by different techniques, with modifier 59 or XS on the second. Note the biopsy add-on rule: one primary code per technique, add-ons for additional lesions of the same technique.

No, not on the same day. These OCT codes are mutually exclusive with an NCCI indicator of 0, so no modifier unbundles them. Bill the one that drove the decision. See the optometry billing guide.

It depends on the payer. Some allow the BCBA's protocol modification (97155) to overlap the technician's treatment (97153); many deny concurrent billing of the same clock time as CO-97. Check the payer policy before billing both. See the ABA billing guide.

Do not double-count. Chronic care management and transitional care management have overlap rules, and the same minutes cannot count toward both in a calendar month. Billing both for the same period draws an overlap denial.

Yes, but by two different providers on the same surgery code. The surgeon bills 66984 with modifier 54 (surgical care), the co-managing optometrist bills 66984 with modifier 55 (postoperative care) for the days actually managed. A written transfer-of-care agreement is required.