jhartung
Networker
I have a pediatrician who is having difficulties with procedure codes. She runs a practice focused on combatting childhood and adolescent obesity. The practice consists of Medical Assesment by the pediatrician to determine the patient's eligibility for the program, nutrition education, behavior modification, exercise and parent/child education and support. The pediatrician oversees everything. She performs an initial evaluation of the patient and then the patient returns twice a week for the excersize, counseling, behavior modification and nutrition education, which lasts for about an hour. She oversees all of this and is billing a 99214 twice a week for these "visits" as she spends roughly that amount of time interacting with the patients and their parents. She is concerned with documentation and wanted to make sure it is ok to charge that level of visit based on time. Does anyone know if there would be any other codes she should bill for rather than E&M codes?