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Avoid Double-Billing by Dissecting This Same-Office Scenario

Published on Mon Dec 18, 2023

Question: My office has primary care physicians (PCPs) and ob-gyn doctors. We have a patient that saw her PCP on 12/1/23 and the PCP noted normal pregnancy, except for hypertension, and calf pain. However, the patient didn’t see the ob-gyn doctor in our group until 12/14/23 to confirm her pregnancy. Then, the first OB visit/start of prenatal flow sheet is set [...]
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