Practice Management Alert

If you can't prove medical necessity, skip 99341-99345. Watch out: If your physician is thinking about going to patients' homes for both sick and well visits, you need to make sure you'll be able to bill and bring in payment for those services. If you don't know how to bill for those services, your physician's reimbursement will plummet. Here's what you need to know to be sure your doctor gets paid. Get to Know the CPT Codes You'll Bill If your physician performs house calls, you will have to bill these services using the house call and domiciliary care codes in your CPT manual, says Constance Row, executive director of the American Academy of Home Care Physicians (AAHCP) in Edgewood, Md. You should use a code from the home visit series depending on whether the patient is new (99341-99345, Home visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient [...]