Wiki New patient cofed

[snordin]

If there are multiple specialties as well as primary care doctors in a group practice under the same tax id can a specialist, general surgery, who has never seen that patient bill a new patient code if that patient’s primary care physician is part of that same group?

 

[SharonCollachi]

A new patient is one who has not received any professional services (ie, those face-to-face services rendered by physicians and other qualified health care professionals who may report evaluation and management services reported by a specific CPT code(s)) from the physician/qualified health care professional or another physician/qualified health care professional of the exact same specialty and subspecialty who belongs to the same group practice, within the past three years.