tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2019 Issue Q4

More CPT® 2020 Changes: Catch Time Change for Virtual QNHP Non-Face-To-Face Codes

Revisions mirror physician E/M changes. If your surgical practice engages qualified non-physician healthcare professionals (QNHP) for certain online patient management services, you should be ready to change how you code that work when CPT® 2020 becomes effective Jan. 1. Take Advantage of Minutes Spent CPT® 2020 deletes 98969 (Online assessment and management service provided by a qualified nonphysician health care professional …), and in its place, you’ll be able to use three new time-based codes to report the same, asynchronous online services to your patients: 98970 (Qualified nonphysician health care profes­sional online digital evaluation and management...

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