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    Wiki PHONE CONSULTS -NEW PATIENT VS ESTABLISHED PATIENTS

    Hello, My company would like to start billing for our short phone conversations and emails. 99441-99443, 99421-99423. Here is our situation. We provide free phone consults to patients. However, when they come for surgery, we do a full H&P and bill a new patient code with surgery. My...
    • lbarog101@gmail.com
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    • 99421 99441 consults emails established new patient phone
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: E/M
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    Wiki NEW or ESTABLISHED PATIENTS IN A GROUP PRACTICE

    This is a group practice with Obgyn and Maternal Fetal Medicine subspeciality. Patients are scheduled among the 4 office locations depending on their medical needs. The doctors circulate among the 4 locations There is one central EMR with patients database. Each facility has its own identifying...
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    Wiki New vs. Established patients in optometry

    Hello I work in a FQHC clinic that offers Medical, Behavioral Health, & now optometry services. I am fairly new to the coding world and I am wondering when a patient that has been seen in medical is coming in for the first time in optometry are they considered new or established when billing for...
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    Wiki Diagnosis Management Points Calculation - Est Problem,New Provider (same practice)

    Please let me know how many diagnosis management points you would assign???????? Scenario: An established patient to a single-specialty practice comes in for a second office visit to be seen for the same illness he was seen for 1 week ago by Dr. Smith. However, this time he is seeing Dr...
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    Wiki New to Outpatient Hospital Coding

    Scenario: A patient is registered in the hospital as outpatient and the physician sees the patient. Do they bill under 99201-99205 or 99211-99215? New versus established rules would apply in this case. Any help is appreciated.
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    Wiki new vs established patient-organization aquires

    If an organization aquires a practice and all providers remain at the practice but the tax ID # changes. Should all the first visits for their exisisting patients be billed as a new patient visits?
    • kabenoit
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    • established exisisting patient practice visits
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: E/M
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    Wiki Preventative vs established

    Scenario established visit- documented as a CPX. Several established chronic problems listed-- ALL stable. NO chief complaint, but each chronic problem addressed (some documented as followed by another physician). No HPI-- as the problems are mostly current but chronic in terms of years. Good...
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