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Position Preventive Medicine Counseling Codes Correctly

Published on Thu Sep 18, 2014

Learn why a patient’s illness negates the use of these codes. If the patient sees an ob-gyn just for counseling and does not have an established illness, you should use one of four codes. Depending on the session’s duration, assign: 99401 -- Preventive medicine counseling and/or risk factor reduction intervention(s) provided to an individual (separate procedure); approximately 15 minutes
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