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According to CPT 2021 Guidelines: "A shared or split visit is defined as a visit in which a physician and other qualified health care professional(s) jointly provide the face-to-face and non-face-to-face work related to the visit."
"...the time personally spent by the physician and other qualified health care professional(s) assessing and managing the patient on the date of the encounter is summed to define total time."
Question: The patient sees 2 providers from the same group (Ortho Doc & PT), the doc was seen in the morning at one location, PT was seen in the afternoon at another location BUT there are both under the same group. Do we bill 2 E/M codes respective to each specialty and split the time? Or do we combine the total time of both visits?
"...the time personally spent by the physician and other qualified health care professional(s) assessing and managing the patient on the date of the encounter is summed to define total time."
Question: The patient sees 2 providers from the same group (Ortho Doc & PT), the doc was seen in the morning at one location, PT was seen in the afternoon at another location BUT there are both under the same group. Do we bill 2 E/M codes respective to each specialty and split the time? Or do we combine the total time of both visits?