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[reinelt]

I have an FNP that has been seeing the same patients in assisted living for seven years. She has accepted a new job and will be seeing the same patients but new a new NPI/tax id. Would the patients be considered establish since it is the same provider or new patient since it is a new group? (It still matters to me because I have followed her to her new job entering her charges.)

 

[AmandaBriggs]

Per CPT, the patient would be considered established. "An established patient is one who has received professional services 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."