NESmith
Expert
I work for a Multi-Specialty Clinic and we have several Ortho providers who also have sub-specialties. One is a Hand Specialist, one is Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, one is Knee and so on. Each one has a different taxonomy code that represent their specialty. OK, now for my question;if a patient is seen as a new patient with the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation provider and a year later comes back and sees the Hand specialist would the patient be considered "new". I know this works in Cardiology when one is a cardiologist and the other one is a cardiac electrophysiologist but does this work for all specialists with a sub-specialty. Thanks for your help with this question.