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Depression screening on annual wellness visit
Welcome to Medicare and Initial annual wellness visits
because it is included. However, we CAN bill it on subsequent wellness visits.
We recently had a meeting at the office I work at and we were told that we cannot bill this service at all.
Can anyone help me with this?
Shared Visit Documentation and Reporting
A split or shared visit occurs when both a physician and a qualified non-physician practitioner (NPP) meet face-to-face with a Medicare patient on the same date of service, and the work of the physician and the NPP are “combined” into a single E/M service. Split or shared visits may improve a physician’s productivity and positively […]
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Pulse ox with office visit or nebulizer treatment
New Patient Visit for Same Practice Subspecialist
Question: A referring provider and subspecialist are in the same practice and bill under the same tax ID; however, the referring provider is an obstetrician/gynecologist,and the subspecialist is a gynecologist obstetrician. Can the gynecologist obstetrician bill a new patient visit? Answer: Per the CPT® definition, a new patient is one who has not received any… professional services […]
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New patient visit vs established
Telemedicine visit
I am getting differing answers so thought I would see if anyone had any insight.
How would you code for a 30 minute telemed appt, with Premera as the payor?
If it was a face to face visit, it would be 99214.
Thanks in advance!
ER visit for contractions admitted and delivered same day – Physician
Thanks for any help
99213 and 73630 in same visit
99213(25)(1,2,3,4)
73630 (1,2,3,4)
(1) M77.52
(2)M79.606
(3)R26.9
(4)R60.0
Any tips for why my 73630 got denied for "inconsistent modifier or required modifier is missing"?
This is through Humana insurance, they paid for the OV
Thanks!
Post-op ER visit
If a patient has surgery on one day and two days later goes to the ER for symptoms that turn out to be related to the surgery, and the consulting physician is a member of the same group as the surgeon it still gets coded as a post-op visit, right?
(Dr. A did an ESWL on a patient for kidney stones on a Monday. On Wednesday, the patient had hematuria and pain and went to the ER. Dr. B believes it was because of the ESWL two days prior. So, the consult is coded as a 99024, correct?)
Thanks!