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Provider sees a NP gives 1 bullet in HPI, no pFSH, no ROS, no exam, but spends 50Min with pt. over 50%couseling & coordination of care can I bill a NP visit?
 
If I were auditing this chart, I would have to wonder what kind of counseling and coordination of care the provider could be doing for over 25 minutes for a new patient who he had not examined and from whom he had taken only 1 item of history. Just MHO.
 
According to CMS:

When counseling and/or coordination of care dominates (more than 50 percent of)
the physician/patient and/or family encounter (face-to-face time in the office or other
outpatient setting, floor/unit time in the hospital, or NF), time is considered the key or
controlling factor to qualify for a particular level of E/M services. If the level of service is
reported based on counseling and/or coordination of care, the total length of time of the
encounter should be documented and the record should describe the counseling and/or
activities to coordinate care.
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So yes, assuming they have documented the total length of the encounter, that greater than half of it was spent counseling, and the content of the counseling, they can bill the E/M visit based on the time. It doesn't matter what level of history, exam, or medical decision making complexity was documented.
 
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