Preventive medicine and Medicare wellness visits with a problem oriented visit Recorded on May 21, 2020 While CPT® allows medical practices to … [Read more...]
Screening for depression | HCPCS code G0444
Annual depression screening code G0444 Medicare pays primary care practices to screen all Medicare patients annually for depression. The service … [Read more...]
Preventive Medicine Services – Medicare
Medicare has very specific requirements for preventive services. What can you bill, what must you document? This article covers all the bases … [Read more...]
Wellness visits and care management in Rural Health Centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers (RHCs and FQHCs)
RHCs and FQHCs are paid an all-inclusive rate (AIR) or national prospective payment system (PPS) rate for any service that is defined as a visit to … [Read more...]
Are you missing the initial annual wellness visit? | G0438
After I gave a presentation at a family medicine conference a physician said to me, “What you just told me will pay for the entire cost of my coming … [Read more...]
Age and wellness visits | Eligibility for Welcome to Medicare
Question: Does the patient need to be 65 years old in order to bill the Welcome to Medicare Visit? Answer: No, there is no age restriction … [Read more...]
Wellness visits and prolonged care | How to use G0513 & G0514
Medicare stunned us by creating two prolonged services HCPCS codes for use with Medicare covered preventive medicine services in 2018. They may be … [Read more...]
Billing for pap smear
Clinicians often ask what codes to use when billing for a pap smear provided during a preventive medicine service or other problem-oriented E/M … [Read more...]
Can you screen for an existing condition? | Diagnosis Coding for Lab Services
Sometimes, the hardest thing about coding for preventive services isn’t the visit at all. It’s the labs. Patients come in for an annual physical … [Read more...]
Reporting a problem-oriented visit on the same day as Welcome to Medicare (G0402) or Initial and Subsequent Wellness Visit (G0438, G0439)
To do or not to do? When can you report a problem oriented visit with the Welcome to Medicare (G0402), or Initial or Subsequent (G0438, G0439) … [Read more...]
Everyday Coding for Medical Practices
How can a practice increase its revenue? The easiest way is by collecting for services already performed, and the first step in that process is … [Read more...]
Examination Codes in ICD-10
In ICD-10-CM, diagnosis coding for preventive medicine services are divided as with or without abnormal findings. Learn about 'Z' codes in this 5 … [Read more...]
Can I get paid for…a problem oriented visit and wellness visit on the same day
Patients who come into the office for a physical or wellness visit often have a problem they want to discuss, or chronic conditions that need to be … [Read more...]
Performing services that increase primary care revenue
CMS states it wants to increase pay to primary care physicians. And while we might quarrel with their strategies or with the speed of achieving the … [Read more...]