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Wiki Prevenative Visit with counseling

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Our new doctor is billing 99397's with face to face time for additional counseling on coordination of care with pt (99402). Does the 99397 need a modifier and/or isn't that counseling already included in that visit and it should only be coded as a 99397?
 
Did the doctor document total time spent with the patient and how much was spent on counseling and what he counseled them on?? I know that over 50% or more of the time needs to be spent counseling or he has to document how many minutes he spent counseling with patient otherwise it's included in the 99397.

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You cannot apply the 50% counseling rule to preventive encounters as there is no timed component for this encounter. any counseling that occurs during a preventive is part of that encounter and is not separately billable.
 
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