AMA CPT® Assistant - 2009 Issue 7 (July)

Preventive Medicine Services (July 2009)

July 2009 page 7 Preventive Medicine Services Preventive Medicine Services codes (99381-99397) are used to report the routine evaluation and management (E/M) of a patient, who is seeking routine preventive services. These codes report the preventive medicine E/M of infants, children, adolescents, and adults, and are a specific category of E/M codes. This category of codes includes subcategories for reporting the following: Initial preventive medicine E/M service for new patient visits (99381-99387) Periodic preventive medicine reevaluation and management services for established patient visits (99391-99397) For 2009, CPT codes 99381-99397 were revised to exclude reference to counseling for immunization services...

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