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NP’s seeing new patients
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Tammie
My doctor is often asked to review records for patients from out of state due to a study he is doing. In the past he has done these for free, but they are taking up enough time that we are now going to implement a charge for these reviews for private insurance patients.
While we fully realize that we cannot do this for Medicare patients, I was wondering if we could use an ABN to notify them of the fact that Medicare will not pay for this review of records and that the patient will be directly responsible for this charge. From my understanding of how ABNs work, an ABN is used to notify the patient of something that might not be covered under Medicare. Am I understanding correctly that we could possibly use the ABN as a way to charge Medicare patients? This would solely be a records review – we would not be seeing the Medicare patients.
I’m not trying to do anything hinky here. Just want to be able to allow Medicare patients to also have their records reviewed because the kind of things we are reviewing for often occurs more in Medicare-aged patients anyway.
I’d appreciate having anyone who’s a Medicare billing and ABN expert weigh in on this.
Julie Veronick, CMPE, CPC
If one of our PA’s or NP’s sees patients in a nursing home outside of the office setting for medication management (E/M) what CPT codes would be used and would there be modifiers needed?
In the office setting we would normally use the E/M codes, so would these still be used (99211-99215) with modifiers in the nursing home(assisted living facility)? Or should the nursing facility services codes be used? Which CPT codes should we be using?
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PPS