tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2002 Issue 9

Stop Overlooking CPO and Boost Your Bottom Line

Physicians supervising complex and multispecialty patient care can often recoup payment for their time by accessing care plan oversight (CPO) codes 99374-99380. Documentation is crucial when reporting 99374-99380, however, and lack of thorough and efficient records can lead to even more unpaid effort. What It Is CPO services are time-based, non face-to-face E/M services that include many tasks physicians regularly perform for the long-term management of home health agency, hospice or nursing facility patients under their care. Surgeons might provide such services for transplant patients undergoing immunosuppression therapy or vascular patients on long-term anticoagulant therapy."Reimbursement is quite good...

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