Will Insurers Still Pay for Lidocaine?
But you may still receive reimbursement for lidocaine as an anesthetic. The 2003 fee schedule is effective through March 31, Callaway says. So, insurers may pay for J2000 even though the 2004 fee schedule doesn’t contain the code. Cost: The deletion shouldn’t hurt your reimbursement. Most insurers already bundle lidocaine into the injection. “Pretty much all the major companies stopped paying for J2000 as an anesthetic long ago,” Callaway says. Even if the deletion cuts a paying code from your superbill, the bundle “The 2003 reimbursement from various insurers, including Tricare, which bases their allowable charges on Medicare, ranged from $1.34 to $3.76,” Rogers-Kowalski says.
