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Skipping Tests, Screenings With Preventive Medicine Codes Will Cost Your Practice Hundreds

Pay attention to modifier 25 requirements to help ensure payment. You know that you should choose a wellness visit code based on the patient’s age. Where preventive medicine encounter coding gets tricky is in determining if you can bill ancillary services along with 99381-99387 (Initial comprehensive preventive medicine evaluation and management of an individual including an age and gender appropriate [...]
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