Surgery Guidelines on New Patients

[vamberpaez]

Hi, I work in family medicine and we had a scenario come up and were unsure how to handle it nor could we find any supportive information online. The question that came up in our clinic was: In order for a physician to perform and bill a procedure, for example a circumcision - must the patient be established?

[mbort]

not at all, procedures are performed on new patients all the time (ie injections, fracture care, etc).

[profmedgirl]

I agree with mbort, px can be done on new or est pts.

[cmartin]

Ditto
C.Martin CPC-GENSG