Linda McMann
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One of my fellow coders in our medical group raised a question regarding the usage of prolonged services code in the office [99354 and 99355]. The guidelines say face-to-face with patient and she questions if we can still use them if the physician must step out of the exam room to confer with an outside physician regarding that patient. It is not a problem at my site as all exam rooms have a phone, but there are no phones in the exam rooms at her office. My question is this: Can the phone time outside the exam room be counted towards fulfilling the time requirement of the prolonged services codes? Thanks for any help.