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New Patient Coding:

Follow These 3 FAQs for New Patient Coding Success

Published on Thu Dec 12, 2013

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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