We have a delima in our office.  Our physician will counsel a family member about a patient but the patient is not present.  Is there any guidelines out there directing you on how to bill for these services.  My thoughts are you would code an establish patient visit, document your time and the fact that the patient is not present, ...

Congrats to you.  I know it is a hard and long test.

According to the website they are taking your actual grade.  Back when I took the test you had to make a 70% in each section in order to pass.  But if they are taking your actual grade, it sounds like the test is not broken down into 3 sections anymore.

I lasted time I have heard for implementation is October 1, 2013.  Yes, it will be a big change in codes.  ICD-10 is supposed to be more detailed and codes can range to up to 7 digits ( alpha and numeric).

Anytime you are coding based on time you have to document the time spent during the visit.  Since psychotherapy visits are time based the only way it can be determined the correct codes are used is to be able to verify the time in the note.  Of course you also have to document to contents of the visit.  According the to E/M ...

My question is if a patient comes into the Cardiologist’s office as a follow up from an inpatient stay from an Acute MI, it is within the 8 weeks, how would you code the visit?  Is it considered a subsequent episode of care since it is a follow up from the hospital stay, using the 5th digit of a “2” or is it considered an old MI (412) but it ...