tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 1

TCM Update: CPT® 2014 Clarifies Transitional Care Management E/M Codes

You can use the codes for new patients, too. You’ve had a year to use CPT® 2013 TCM codes 99495-99496 (Transitional care management services with the following required elements: Communication [direct contact, telephone, electronic] with the patient and/or caregiver within two business days of discharge…), and now CPT® 2014 works the kinks out. Rocky Start in 2013 Maybe your general surgeon was one of the providers who had difficulty using these codes when they were new in 2013. “We know some practitioners [had] challenges billing for transitional care management,” said CMS’s Chris Ritter in...

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