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  1. JeanieBCPC

    Wiki Resident Modifier E/M Level

    Hello! This is my first time posting in the forum and I hope this is formatted correctly. I have recently been given the Teaching facility Family Medicine Clinic in my hospital's network. Of course ,these are 95% resident encounters. I code both GC and GE modifiers. My question is, what is the...
  2. K

    Wiki Primary Care Exception Rule

    I work in an OBgyn office that is an outpatient clinic in a teaching hospital. Under the Primary care exception rule, Residents can see patients with the close, but not direct supervision of the Teaching Provider. There can only be up to 4 Residents at once, the Teaching Provider must be...
  3. C

    Wiki Prenatal Package- Resident Clinic

    Can someone who works at an OB resident clinic confirm with me how they bill out the prenatal package (59425/59426)? Does your attending/teaching physician see and sign all ob visits? Or just in the end when the pt is ready to deliver? Once you bill the package 59425/59426 do you add the GC...
  4. B

    Wiki Teaching physician documentation

    If a provider states that “patient seen and examined. Agree with above note”. Does this suffice for an attestation of a residents note?
  5. A

    Wiki Free outpatient clinic vist code

    What code would be used for a free visit? The attending did not come in today, and 21 patients were seen by residents only. How could this be coded/billed/documented?
  6. ghejnal

    Wiki Residents billable "after hours" in ED setting?

    Hi all, I am looking for official guidelines or a website somewhere that states that residents are billable ON THEIR OWN without having to have attending documentation during the following hours: Monday-Friday after 4:30 or 5:00pm (I'm unsure which time), weekends and holidays. I was taught...
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