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Preventive Medicine:

2 Scenarios Pinpoint the Perfect Preventive Med Counseling Code

Published on Thu Sep 18, 2014

Here’s how to make diagnosis codes support your claim. You could be missing out if you don’t report preventive medicine counseling codes 99401-99404 on the same day as a problem-based E/M visit when your ob-gyn counsels the patient on an unrelated issue. Crux of the problem: Sometimes a patient comes in for preventive care/counseling without a specific problem or complaint, [...]
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