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Puzzled by Preventive Medicine Counseling Codes? Follow This Advice

Published on Tue Jun 23, 2015

Tip: Don’t use 99401-99404 if the patient is ill. Suppose your ob-gyn performs a problem-based E/M visit and also provides some preventive medicine counseling on an unrelated issue. If you’re not adding 99401-99404 to your claim, you could be leaving money on the table.   Learn how to determine which code to report and what documentation you need using these [...]
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