tci E/M Coding Alert - 2022 Issue Q2

Knowledge Check Answers: Understand Preventive Care Coding

See how your answers compare to the experts’. Scenario 1 Answer: For the preventive exam: You’ll use 99391 (Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation and management of an individual including an age and gender appropriate history, examination, counseling/anticipatory guidance/risk factor reduction interventions, and the ordering of laboratory/diagnostic procedures, established patient; infant (age younger than 1 year)) with Z00.110 (Health examination for newborn under 8 days old). Why? As the child has already received professional, face-to-face services from your pediatrician within the past three years, and those services have presumably been services reported by a specific CPT® code, the...

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