DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2023 Issue 7 (July)

Understanding E/M: Calling patient with test results is not a telephone E/M service

Question: Our physicians and nurse practitioners (NP) prefer to call patients with their test results rather than waiting until the next visit or delegating the task to a member of clinical staff. Most of the calls last at least five minutes, but some can take much longer.
 
Our providers have said we should bill the calls as telephone E/M services (99441-99443) when the patient is a Medicare beneficiary or has a payer that covers telephone E/M. Is that permissible?

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