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Preventive Counseling:

Get Proficient With Preventive Medicine Counseling With These 3 Scenarios

Published on Fri Apr 03, 2015

Hint: Counseling codes cannot be used for patients with existing illness. When your FP performs preventive counseling, you will have to report it with the appropriate counseling code depending on the time your clinician spent face-to-face with the patient. You will lose out on added reimbursement if you are not identifying appropriate opportunities to report same day E/M codes with [...]
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