kimber3179
New
I do the coding for a family practice clinic of 14 physicians, physician assistants and nurse practioners. All those administrative physicals with forms to be filled out have been been ongoing issue. What documentation is needed to bill these types of physicals, usually the physician makes a small note patient is here for camp physicial refer to form. Or the physician will mark on the superbill that the visit is their yearly annual exam with the diagnosis for well child exam but the documentation says school physical refer to form. Basically the scanned form is the documentation. So to me we should only bill for filling out the form. But the physicians want it billed how they marked it on the superbill, some physicians circle a E/M level others a preventative code. And we always bill it to insurance even though it is usually denied as non covered. How do some of you handle these physicals? Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is one of our major areas of patient complaints and phone calls, and also is a huge headache for me. Thank you