Check out any one of the many national home price reports, and headlines scream of new peaks and growing gains each month. In the first month of 2017 in Washington, we encountered two large economic benchmarks in the economy — record-setting stock levels and a local housing market that produced median home prices that reached record levels set in 2007 during the boom prior to the Great Recession.
If the patient has not been seen in the last three years by the same physician or partner physician in the same group and exact same specialty and subspecialty,, the consultant should use the new patient clinic code group 99201-99205 on their initial date of service and then choose a code from the established outpatient code group 99211-99215 for all subsequent observation services, including the day of discharge.
In that case, the consultant should chose a level of service from medical code …