We are a critical access hospital (CAH). We provide smoking cessation therapy in our cardiac rehab department. The documentation is done and signed by a respiratory therapist (RT), and we are currently billing this as a professional charge. My question is, can we bill this on a UB-04 as a facility charge only and still allow our RT or other ancillary staff to perform it?
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