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Prevention and Screening

Prevention

Keeping patients healthy, providing advice about health risks and recommending screening tests and immunizations are the heart of primary care medicine. CPT uses one set of codes and Medicare another, and you’ll find coding information on both here, along with guidance on billing for split visits.

CPT codes for preventive services Expand
  • Coding Guide | Preventive Medicine Services
  • ROS requirements for preventive services OB/GYN
  • Billing for pap smear
  • Reimbursement for Shingrix, the new zoster vaccine | 90750

 

Preventive services for Medicare patients Expand
  • Preventive Medicine Services | Medicare
  • Prolonged services codes for Medicare preventive medicine services: G0513, G0514
  • How to use G0513, G0514 | Quick reference sheet
  • Are you missing the initial annual wellness visit? | G0438
  • Age and wellness visits | Eligibility for Welcome to Medicare
  • G0101 Pelvic and Breast Exam
  • Wellness visits and care management in Rural Health Centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers (RHCs and FQHCs)
Screening and counseling for behavioral conditions Expand
  • Smoking cessation coding, 99406 and 99407
  • Screening for depression | HCPCS code G0444
  • Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions in Primary Care to Reduce Alcohol Misuse | HCPCS Code G0442
  • Screening for Other Sexually Transmitted Illnesses (STI)
  • Behavioral counseling for obesity, HCPCS code G0447
  • Intensive behavioral counseling for cardiovascular disease, HCPCS code G0446
  • High Intensity Behavioral Counseling to Prevent Sexually Transmitted Illnesses
  • Screening codes guide: G0442, G0443, G0444, G0446, G0447
Preventive and problem visits Expand
  • Guidelines for Billing Preventive Medicine Services and Split Visits
  • Reporting a problem-oriented visit on the same day as Welcome to Medicare (G0402) or Initial and Subsequent Wellness Visit (G0438, G0439)
  • Preventive medicine and Medicare wellness visits with an E/M | Webinar
  • Can I get paid for a problem oriented visit and wellness visit on the same day?

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Our mission is to provide accurate, comprehensive, up-to-date coding information, allowing medical practices to increase revenue, decrease coding denials and reduce compliance risk. That's what coding knowledge can do.

In 1988, CodingIntel.com founder Betsy Nicoletti started a Medical Services Organization for a rural hospital, supporting physician practice. She has been a self-employed consultant since 1998. She estimates that in the last 20 years her audience members number over 28,400 at in person events and webinars. She has had 2,500 meetings with clinical providers and reviewed over 43,000 medical notes. She knows what questions need answers and developed this resource to answer those questions. For more about Betsy visit www.betsynicoletti.com.

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