Pediatric Mythbuster:
Can Existing Problem Qualify You to Use Modifier 25?
Published on Fri Jan 22, 2016
You may be surprised when we bust this commonly-held coding myth. It’s a frequent occurrence—a patient presents for a well child visit, but the pediatrician also encounters an issue that prompts a separate sick visit, allowing the practice to report both an E/M code and a preventive visit code. However, the rules for this situation can get murky when the [...]