Often, physicians will provide more than one separately reportable, non-E/M service during the same patient encounter. When this happens, Medicare and other payers will often reduce payment for the secondary services.
Here’s why: Many of the component services that make up the physicians total effort when performing a particular service (such as surgical approach and closure, pre- and postoperative care, etc.) are considered in the primary procedure’s payment.
In other words, the multiple-procedure reduction is the payers [...]
