AMA CPT® Assistant - 2007 Issue 1 (January)
Medicine: Home Health Procedures/Services (January 2007)
January 2007 page 30c Coding Communication:Medicine: Home Health Procedures/Services Question Are codes 99500-99600, which are part of the Home Health Procedures/Services subsection, only intended to be reported by physicians? AMA Comment No, these codes are intended to be reported by nonphysician health care professionals. Physicians would report these services with the evaluation and management (E/M) home visit codes 99341-99350. However, heath care professionals who are authorized to report codes 99341-99350 may report codes from the 99500-99600 series if both services are performed. Modifier 25 should be appended to the E/M code, if the patient's condition requires a significant separately...
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