Well Visits:
Understand Payer Differences Before Coding Pap Smears With Yearly Physicals
Published on Fri Sep 20, 2013
Heads up: Medicare follows its own guidelines, not CPT® rules. If your ob-gyn conducts Pap services when patients come for their yearly physicals, you should be paid for both services. Keep these tips in mind when documenting the encounter and selecting the appropriate diagnosis. Understand the Visit Codes You’ll typically report an annual physical with a preventive medicine evaluation and [...]