If anyone, or everyone, would share a little info with me re: the situation I have in the Free Clinic for which I volunteer a few hours each week about 99211:
This being the code of course used most frequently for the Nursing Staff, it seems to be regarded as not too important. However, from my view, I need it to be correct. Here is the question I need answers for before I set my Volunteer Foot down; I need to know whether 99211 must have a diagnosis code in the chart in order to be coded correctly?
The Nurses have been submitting a Billing Slip with sometimes a diagnosis code on it and sometimes not. I may be able to discern that they did a B/P check, and I know that is 401.9. But when I open the Chart, it reads "no diagnosis."
They have recently decided that I will use V65.8 as the diagnosis code for their activities; however, inside the Chart is continues to read, "no diagnosis."
Can this legally happen?
Thanks to anyone with some information.
This being the code of course used most frequently for the Nursing Staff, it seems to be regarded as not too important. However, from my view, I need it to be correct. Here is the question I need answers for before I set my Volunteer Foot down; I need to know whether 99211 must have a diagnosis code in the chart in order to be coded correctly?
The Nurses have been submitting a Billing Slip with sometimes a diagnosis code on it and sometimes not. I may be able to discern that they did a B/P check, and I know that is 401.9. But when I open the Chart, it reads "no diagnosis."
They have recently decided that I will use V65.8 as the diagnosis code for their activities; however, inside the Chart is continues to read, "no diagnosis."
Can this legally happen?
Thanks to anyone with some information.
Re: 99211
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