Tip: Don’t use 99401-99404 if the patient is ill. Suppose your ob-gyn performs a problem-based E/M visit and also provides some preventive medicine counseling on an unrelated issue. If you’re not adding 99401-99404 to your claim, you could be leaving [...]
Question: An established patient came into our ob-gyn office with her mother and they wanted to talk about whether the girl (who is 17) should have the HPV vaccine. Our doctor counseled the patient for 20 minutes on the benefits and [...]
Question: A mother brought in an infant saying that the baby had been pulling at his ears. On exam, the child had no fever and the ears looked fine. The child was well, but our pediatrician had to spend a [...]
Hint: Counseling codes cannot be used for patients with existing illness. When your internal medicine specialist performs preventive counseling, you will have to report it with the appropriate counseling code depending on the time your clinician spent face-to-face with the [...]
Hint: Counseling codes cannot be used for patients with existing illness. When your FP performs preventive counseling, you will have to report it with the appropriate counseling code depending on the time your clinician spent face-to-face with the patient. You [...]
Question: An established patient came into our ob-gyn office wanting to talk about whether she should have the HPV vaccine. Our gynecologist counseled the patient for 20 minutes on the benefits and she decided at that time to have the vaccine. [...]
Find out what you should report when the patient decides against immunization. You might get faced up with many a tricky situation when trying to get coverage for human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine administration, especially when the patient refuses the [...]
Find out what you should report when the patient decides against immunization. You might get faced up with many a tricky situation when trying to get coverage for human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine administration, especially when the patient refuses the [...]
Question: My urologist saw a patient with a suspected infection of an interstim device. The surgeon took the patient to the operating room where he incised over the IPG device on the patient’s lower back. The notes reads: “The wound was [...]
Here’s how to make diagnosis codes support your claim. You could be missing out if you don’t report preventive medicine counseling codes 99401-99404 on the same day as a problem-based E/M visit when your ob-gyn counsels the patient on an [...]
