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Let This Prolonged Services Chart Help Guide Your Code Selections
Published on Thu Oct 30, 2014
If you’re still not sure when you should report the prolonged service codes (+99354-99355), check out this chart created by Richard Tuck, MD, FAAP, pediatrician at PrimeCare of Southeastern Ohio in Zanesville, and can help serve as your guide when reporting these visits.
This chart shows the completed prolonged services code family, including face-to-face, non-face-to-face, inpatient, and outpatient coding options for the extensive time spent.
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