CPT^® 99282, Under New or Established Patient

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 99282 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - New or Established Patient.

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The provider sees a patient for an emergency department visit involving evaluation and management (E/M). The visit involves a straightforward level of medical decision making.

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ED to Inpatient then transferred on same day

I code for the Physician side, not the facility side. So, for us we would still code the ER visit with any procedure that was performed, 99281 - 99285. Example- 99282-57(decision for surgery, 90 day ... [ Read More ]

Question on welfare checks

We have a patient brought into the ED upon a welfare check from the local police. The patient's insurance denied our claim for services the diagnosis was I73.9 and Z88.0 with CPT Codes 99282 and 99... [ Read More ]

trauma activation

question: I have a facility that is a registered level 1 trauma center trying to bill trauma activation for a patient along with EM 99282. The patient came in via amb (should have charged 99283) with ... [ Read More ]

Trauma Activation charging

ER Visit

Hi Kayla. As an auditor with specialty knowledge in urology, I would agree with you that your urologist is seeing a patient with an acute illness, but not one that is high risk, meaning that it doesn'... [ Read More ]

OB Question

Could someone help please! I am an OBGYN coder and I have two different scenario. 1. An ob patient comes into the ER for vaginal bleeding @ 37 weeks on 10/01/20. The patient is sent to L&D patient ha... [ Read More ]

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician Coding

[QUOTE="kristiking, post: 476156, member: 25821"] I understand that portion, I'm curious about those that have a detailed or comprehensive history and exam. When it truly comes down to MDM, how to do... [ Read More ]

Repeat E/M Service Modifier

I've been seeing claims denied by insurance because it is the second claim for the same date of service that has the same CPT code (e.g. 99282) but the two E/M services were billed by different provid... [ Read More ]

Having more than one coder involved in coding a patients record

[QUOTE="justjoan, post: 470438, member: 38101"] I am a CPC and I do ED Coding for both facility and professional. We also work our claim edits for the patients that we code. Is it appropriate if I c... [ Read More ]

Having more than one coder involved in coding a patients record

I am a CPC and I do ED Coding for both facility and professional. We also work our claim edits for the patients that we code. Is it appropriate if I coded a patients record both procedure and diagno... [ Read More ]

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