Forum - Questions & Answers

Aug 8th, 2016 - jberg02 1 

Advance care planning

My providers have just started charging for the advance care planning, the 99497. A lot of times this is the dictation that is on the note for this:

"We did talk about code status she said do whatever you have to do to get me started up again so she is considered a full code. Probably 3 minutes or less discussing those last 3 issues."

My questions is do you think this is sufficient documentation to support billing this. I know this is a time based code and it says the first 30 minutes. Is there anything that would support that it needs to be at least half the time, 16 minutes.



Home About Terms Privacy

innoviHealth® - 62 E 300 North, Spanish Fork, UT 84660 - Phone 801-770-4203 (9-5 Mountain)

Copyright © 2000-2024 innoviHealth Systems®, Inc. - CPT® copyright American Medical Association