Internal Medicine Coding Alert
Reader Question:
Hold Off on Meet-and-Greet Charges
Published on Tue Oct 19, 2004 
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Question: We want to report an E/M code for our doctor's "meet and greet" sessions with new patients. We're thinking of using unlisted-procedure code 99429. What do you recommend? Answer: You can probably please your patients and build a practice with meet-and-greet visits, but insurance carriers don't consider these kinds of visits medically necessary. That means you should not use 99429 (Unlisted preventive medicine service) or any other code. You also shouldn't bill the patient.
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