No Code for Camp Exam? Here's How You Handle Pay
Published on Wed May 27, 2009
Outside this time frame, consider filling out forms with well check. Summer vacation is right around the corner, and you know what that means: Parents needing camp forms filled out, and your practice wanting to provide this service while getting paid for the pediatricians time. Heres how your peers do it: 100 percent* complete the form without a face-to-face encounter. Note: Figure based on respondents to a survey posted on www.PediatricCoding911.com, not a scientific sampling. But doing so comes with some hitches and additional options. Tie Exam Into Preventive Medicine Service Why is capturing pay for camp form services, which generally do not require the work involved in a preventive medicine exam (99381-99395, Preventive Medicine Services), problematic? There is no code for a camp physical exam, writes Richard Lander, MD, FAAP, pediatrician with Essex-Morris Pediatric Group in Livingston, N.J. You can build the associated E/M service into forms completion for [...]
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