Prevention and screening

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.

Prolonged Services Codes for Medicare Preventive Medicine Services: G0513, G0514

Did you (or your clinician) ever have a wellness visit that took a really, truly, madly long time? And wondered what—if anything—you could bill with it? Wonder no 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 assessed and managed. When do these problem oriented discussions rise to the level of an additional problem oriented office visit? This brief video will guide you about when […]

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