tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 5

PREVENTIVE VISITS: An Ounce Of Prevention Is Worth Billing For

6 tips for billing preventive services along with Medicare-covered services Think you can’t receive reimbursement for annual physical exams and other preventive screenings? Think again! Medicare may not cover many preventive exams (CPT codes 99381-99397), but you can still bill the patient directly for them. And if you perform the preventive screenings alongside Medicare-covered services such as an evaluation and management (E/M) code, you can bill for both. Experts offer the following tips:1) Overcome physicians’ reluctance to bill the patient for screenings. “Old school” doctors are reluctant to bill the patient, but “I keep telling them...

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