Alisa Dinneen
Networker
We have a new provider for a pain clinic that wants to report Health and Behavior assessment codes 96150 and 96151 when he does the initial E/M (99214) evaluation. Everything I find says we cannot report these together but he is sure that his coders made this work at his previous employment--but doesn't know how. I've been considering either using higher E/M code 99215, or, adding Prolonged Physician Service code 99354 -- depending on what documentation gives me.
Does anyone have experience in this situation or thoughts on the best way to capture the E/M visit and the Health and Behavior Assessment portion of the provider's visit?
Thank you for any thoughts,
Alisa
Does anyone have experience in this situation or thoughts on the best way to capture the E/M visit and the Health and Behavior Assessment portion of the provider's visit?
Thank you for any thoughts,
Alisa