Anesthesia Coding Alert

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Understand Differences Between New and Established Patients

Question: If a patient sees one physician in our practice, then one year later sees a different physician in the same practice, is this a new or established patient visit? Texas Subscriber Answer: As long as the first and second physicians practice with the same taxonomy code within the same practice, you should code the second visit with the second physician as [...]
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