If it's a Medicare requirement that routine combinations be billed a certain way, how is it complicated? Or is the idea that routine combinations are always us

If it's a Medicare requirement that routine combinations be billed a certain way, how is it complicated? Or is the idea that routine combinations are always used to justify the billing code with the highest possible revenue? I was pretty pissed off when the local ER and traveling doctor used the CT scan I got to justify a more complicated case, when what happened is that the radiologist made a definitive diagnosis for $20 and basically eliminated any liability for sending me home with a prescription for antibiotics. (a sinus infection irritated the nerves in one of my teeth and I became concerned about the degree of pain during the night on a weekend...not a particularly grave condition in the end, but easy enough to become concerned about pain radiating through your jaw)