E/M Coding:
No Patient in the Room? No Problem
Published on Thu Mar 03, 2016
You can still bill an E/M code based on time to most insurers. It happens in pediatric practices almost every day—parents make an appointment to speak with the physician about a child’s issues while the child is at school—then your practice is in a bind about how to report the visit. Since the patient (the child) wasn’t present, can you [...]