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Wiki Cancer Risk Assessment Consult

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I have a patient who is asymptomatic but was sent to us (General Surgery) for a risk assessment consult for breast cancer. She has a family history of breast ca and the MD considers her at high risk for breast cancer. We have a consult request and the letter is sent but since she's not having any issues right now, would this be downgraded to a preventive counseling/risk factor reduction visit (99401)? She's being referred to an oncologist to see if she'd recommend starting her on Tamoxifen. If we can bill a consult, would you consider the MDM straightforward since she's not even sick or would you consider it higher because of the Tamoxifen question? Any insights are much appreciated!

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Can you post the note?

Can you post the scrubbed note? There are so many questions about a case like this.

Remember that you can bill a consultation based on time spent in counseling/coordination of care (if it's properly documented).

F Tessa Bartels, CPC, CEMC
 
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