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Lisa Bledsoe

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PCP's often order an echo on their patients prior to them being seen by our cardiologists. If our cardiologist is the one who read the echo, does that negate the new patient status? I don't think so because no face-to-face encounter occurred. What if it is a stress echo though?
 
Lisa Curtis said:
PCP's often order an echo on their patients prior to them being seen by our cardiologists. If our cardiologist is the one who read the echo, does that negate the new patient status? I don't think so because no face-to-face encounter occurred. What if it is a stress echo though?
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You are correct. No face to face encounter occured.
 
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