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Laureen Jandroep
Guest
Ok everyone it looks like we made a mistake on our webinar
and one of our students actually brought it to our attention
so we are re-recording the preventative medicine answer key.
Preventative medicine and Preventative CPT Codes starts with a range of 99381 to 99429.
These are codes set aside for such visits when
the patient is not really sick, they’re coming in for a check-up.
Preventative CPT Codes VIDEO
Examples of that are going to be well-
baby clinics physicals prescription, renewals sports physicals-
anything that falls into that type of the category.
Preventive medicine codes are again going be located in your
evaluation and management section of the front of your CPT manuals.
There’s three divisions for preventative medicine.
You need to know is it a new patient, an established patient
and the age of the patient.
When you see a comprehensive history in an exam it’s not the same thing
when you’re dealing with regular E and M codes
for comprehensive becasue it’s not a multi system exam
that usually do with E and M codes.
This is what preventative medicine and it’s
based solely on age whether a new patient, established patient and the aged
of the patient.
Now, while you’re doing preventative medicine if there’s additional work that’s involved
the CPT guidelines are gonna state that if there’s a trivial problem or
an abnormality that the Doctor encounters- you’re not going to report that.
That’s going to be all going to be in the regular preventative medicine code.
On the other hand, if you have additional
work that’s called for like the removal of a lesion then you do get to report that.
And you’re gonna use a modifier 25 that will be added to that.
Therefore any additional work that is done and you can use
on a office visit uh… 99201 – 99215 and add the modifier25.
When we did this earlier I know Laureen made a comment about
modifier 25- to note that …when she went to conferences they said
if additional work is done it’s a good idea to go ahead and create a separate
report to be added. That way when the auditors come in they have no
modifier 25 is a red flag for auditors. It’s very over used and this can
cause some problems so if your documentation
isn’t up to par you don’t want to fall into the trap of using modifier 24.
That about sums up that preventative
medicine codes. They’re very easy to use
once you get used to them it just takes a
little extra time to uh… make sure your
documentation is accurate that your are
doing no additional work and
to conclude: that you know the age of the patient
because it’s all based on age.
More Preventative CPT Codes Training
Medicare paying Preventive codes
Medical Coding Careers
Read More https://www.cco.us/preventative-cpt-codes-video/
Continue reading...
and one of our students actually brought it to our attention
so we are re-recording the preventative medicine answer key.
Preventative medicine and Preventative CPT Codes starts with a range of 99381 to 99429.
These are codes set aside for such visits when
the patient is not really sick, they’re coming in for a check-up.
Preventative CPT Codes VIDEO
Examples of that are going to be well-
baby clinics physicals prescription, renewals sports physicals-
anything that falls into that type of the category.
Preventive medicine codes are again going be located in your
evaluation and management section of the front of your CPT manuals.
There’s three divisions for preventative medicine.
You need to know is it a new patient, an established patient
and the age of the patient.
When you see a comprehensive history in an exam it’s not the same thing
when you’re dealing with regular E and M codes
for comprehensive becasue it’s not a multi system exam
that usually do with E and M codes.
This is what preventative medicine and it’s
based solely on age whether a new patient, established patient and the aged
of the patient.
Now, while you’re doing preventative medicine if there’s additional work that’s involved
the CPT guidelines are gonna state that if there’s a trivial problem or
an abnormality that the Doctor encounters- you’re not going to report that.
That’s going to be all going to be in the regular preventative medicine code.
On the other hand, if you have additional
work that’s called for like the removal of a lesion then you do get to report that.
And you’re gonna use a modifier 25 that will be added to that.
Therefore any additional work that is done and you can use
on a office visit uh… 99201 – 99215 and add the modifier25.
When we did this earlier I know Laureen made a comment about
modifier 25- to note that …when she went to conferences they said
if additional work is done it’s a good idea to go ahead and create a separate
report to be added. That way when the auditors come in they have no
modifier 25 is a red flag for auditors. It’s very over used and this can
cause some problems so if your documentation
isn’t up to par you don’t want to fall into the trap of using modifier 24.
That about sums up that preventative
medicine codes. They’re very easy to use
once you get used to them it just takes a
little extra time to uh… make sure your
documentation is accurate that your are
doing no additional work and
to conclude: that you know the age of the patient
because it’s all based on age.
More Preventative CPT Codes Training
Medicare paying Preventive codes
Medical Coding Careers
Read More https://www.cco.us/preventative-cpt-codes-video/
Continue reading...