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Don’t Bill This Suture Removal Scenario as Incident-To

Published on Wed Feb 18, 2026

Question: A nurse practitioner (NP) at my practice removed sutures from a patient who received the sutures at a different facility. Can I bill this as a 99211? AAPC Forum Participant Answer: If the patient hasn’t been seen in your practice before this encounter, then the patient shouldn’t be considered an established patient, and the encounter cannot be billed as [...]
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