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Tackle Camp, School, and Sports Physical Challenges with Preventive Medicine Codes -- Sometimes

Published on Thu Jul 23, 2015

Consider collecting from the patient when you can’t bill the payer. Summer and early fall are peak times for practices to receive calls from patients about getting physicals for camp, sports, or school, but if you don’t know how to code for these visits, you could cost your practice hundreds per encounter. Learn when you can — and can’t — [...]
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