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Skipping Tests, Screenings With Preventive Medicine Codes Will Cost Your Practice Hundreds

Published on Tue Jan 21, 2014

Pay attention to modifier 25 requirements to help ensure payment. You know that you should choose a wellness visit code based on the patient’s age. Where preventive medicine encounter coding gets tricky is in determining if you can bill ancillary services along with 99381-99387 (Initial comprehensive preventive medicine evaluation and management of an individual including an age and gender appropriate [...]
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