Otis B Rickman, DO Profile picture
Lung plumber, 🫁🪠,aka Interventional Pulmonologist. Interested in Healthcare, MedEd, PCCM, Medicine, Thoracic surgery, #lungcancer,
Nov 7, 2022 24 tweets 4 min read
Bronchoscopy Billing a #tweetorial thread
👉🏻 RVU's and wRVU's, PE, GPCI, CF
👉🏻 Facility and non-facility
👉🏻 CPT's
👉🏻 Multiple Endoscopy Rule
👉🏻 What it means in dollars
#medtwitter #pulmcc #foamed #aabip #CHEST #ATS #IPtwitter 2/ n Billing and coding seem to be a black box that #meded doesn't talk much about. It quickly becomes very important to new faculty/attendings who have now discovered that this is how they get paid and their productivity is tracked! #businessofmedicine
Nov 5, 2022 7 tweets 8 min read
Lung nodule biopsy. Two minimally invasive options. #CTTTNA or #Bronchoscopy. Which one to choose? Primer on pros/cons here @MaldonadoFabien’s #VERITAS trial. clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04… Lets highlight some recent trials to prompt discussion. Complications After Transthoracic Needle Biopsy of Pulmonary Nodules: A Population-Level Retrospective Cohort Analysis. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35738412/