CPT Knowledgebase - Feb 2, 2021

If a physician or other QHP (eg, nurse practitioner [NP], physician assistant [PA], optometrist, social worker, physical therapist [PT]) sets up and provides education for remote monitoring device services for two or more patients as a group (eg, nurse training two patients on the use of a cardiac remote monitoring device), may the physician or other QHP report code 99453 with multiple units per patient, or must the service be a one-on-one set-up and education per patient in order to report this code?

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