Jan
Rasmussen, CPC, CCS-P, President, Professional
Coding Solutions, Holcombe, Wis. 
Your patient schedules an appointment for a preventive visit, only to present with a problem. Should you report a preventive service code, an office visit code, or both? The answer hinges on the payer and the documentation of the services the ObGyn performed. If you aren’t billing for your preventive services correctly, you could be leaving hard earned reimbursement on the table or run into a compliance billing issue!
Veteran coding consultant Jan Rasmussen, CPC, PCS, ACS-OB will
guide you through the standard rules for preventive services,
including the components of a preventive medicine visit (CPT® codes 99381-9939), ordering
of appropriate immunizations or laboratory/diagnostic procedures;
and management of problems. Jan will show you how to:
- Distinguish a preventive medicine service from a "sick" visit
- Correctly report pelvic exams and pap smears based on payer guidelines
- Learn when it's OK to use a V code as your primary diagnosis
- Determine other payable Medicare screening services, correct ordering of mammograms and billing for fecal-occult blood tests
- Learn tips to help your front desk better identify the nature of the visits
- Identify techniques to ensure the correct levels of service are billed and when to bill both services
- And much more
Don’t be fooled into thinking you’ve got the coding rules down – you need to refresh your coding skills for these bread and butter services so you can rest assured you code these services accurately and get paid in full.
