Wiki New or Established Patient?

[Lorisvg]

I am not sure if this patient is new or established. My family practice doctor did a colonoscopy at the surgery center for a patient he had never seen. I billed the colonoscopy with the pos as the surgery center. The patient then came to the office as a new patient for a physical. Is he a new patient as the previous charges weren't e/m, or is he established?

Thanks for any help you can give me!

I cross posted this to the E/M forum after I realized it belonged there.

 

[CodingKing]

Colonoscopy would fall under a face to face encounter (patient and physician were in the same room), thus making E&M established.