Pediatric Coding Alert

New Patient Coding:

Follow These 3 FAQs for New Patient Coding Success

Is your patient new or established? We help break down the answers. To accurately report an outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) service (99201-99215), you start your code selection by determining whether the patient is new or established – base your code choices by using the three-year rule to determine the patient’s status. But in many cases, that can be hard [...]
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