KaseyMurphy
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Recently I attended the WAEPS billing code quest seminar and something the speaker said raised a lot of questions. I have always billed a new patient as a patient that has not been seen by our practice in the last three years or at all, but the speaker said that if a patient is seen by a optometrist as a new patient and referred to an ophthalmologist in the same practice, but different taxonomy code then both could bill for new patient exams because of the different taxonomy codes regardless of the tax ID, to me this just seems wrong, but when questioned the speaker stood by what she's said. Has anyone encountered this?