I work for a Hem/Med Onc in Florida who wants to start seeing and prescribing medical cannabis to qualified cancer patients. I have seen several other posts on the matter and they have helped answer some of my questions regarding the coding for these encounters. However, it got me thinking about whether these encounters need to be seperate from the normal oncology follow up visits or can they be included in the same dictated note? My inital take was they should be seperate, but now i am not so sure. I am assuming one would be using 99201-99205 for the inital visit and 99211-99215 for any follow up visits? or is there a different set of E/M codes that should be used? (Chronic Care (99490) or Unlisted E/M Procedure (99499) for example)?
Do these require any type of referral or authorization from managed care PCP’s?

Is anyone getting paid from by a payer for these visits? Especially in Florida?

Than you for your assistance in this matter.

Greg