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Support Higher-Level Family Counseling Sessions Using 7 V Codes

Published on Fri Mar 13, 2009

This series helps show why $55 more for a 99214 could be in order. Still don't have V61.0___ on your superbill? Your E/M levels could be suffering. "Pediatricians frequently deal with dysfunctional families," and the family disruption series, V61.0x, helps support work done within these codes' described issues, says Richard Tuck, MD, pediatrician at PrimeCare of Southeastern Ohio in Zanesville. Using a counseling diagnosis often supports a higher level of CPT coding for these time-dominated visits. If you're sold on reporting family disruption diagnoses, get started here. Discover 7 Disruption Types "Going along with our times," ICD-9 2009 added codes for family disruption, explained Katie Arnold CPC, CPC-H, CPC-IM, in her update presentation at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. Effective Nov. 1, 2008, V61.0 was deleted and was expanded into seven codes for "family disruption due to...." For an encounter needed for a family member on military deployment, you [...]
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