MSCALLIE79
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Hello all,
I am a multi- specialty ophthalmology practice, and have a questions regarding an article we received from North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society, I am trying to prevent denials, but my physician now have a questions since we have 6 subspecialties but we all bill under 1 Group NPI.
Can we bill a new patient exam under the sub-specialty taxonomy and each sub-specialty receive a new patient exam within the same group NPI?
Dear Members of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society,
We would like to inform you of the new changes to billing E&M visits effective January 1, 2023. The new wording states that established patient visits (E&M 99212-99215) refer to patients seen within a practice by a physician “in the exact same specialty and subspecialty”. This means that a patient seen by a non-neuro-ophthalmologist within the same practice (cornea, glaucoma, retina, etc.) but not by the neuro-ophthalmologist should be billed as a new visit (E&M 99202-99205).
I am a multi- specialty ophthalmology practice, and have a questions regarding an article we received from North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society, I am trying to prevent denials, but my physician now have a questions since we have 6 subspecialties but we all bill under 1 Group NPI.
Can we bill a new patient exam under the sub-specialty taxonomy and each sub-specialty receive a new patient exam within the same group NPI?
Dear Members of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society,
We would like to inform you of the new changes to billing E&M visits effective January 1, 2023. The new wording states that established patient visits (E&M 99212-99215) refer to patients seen within a practice by a physician “in the exact same specialty and subspecialty”. This means that a patient seen by a non-neuro-ophthalmologist within the same practice (cornea, glaucoma, retina, etc.) but not by the neuro-ophthalmologist should be billed as a new visit (E&M 99202-99205).