According to McKee, if a current patient develops a newly diagnosed—yet related—condition, then you’ll want to perform and bill for a re-eval using code 97164. For example, if a high-school soccer player is receiving care for left patellofemoral pain syndrome and develops similar symptoms ...
(When 1 physician performed the preop care and eval and another physician performed the surgical procedure the pre op component may be identified by adding this modifier the procedure code) Modifier - 57 Decision for Surgery (An E/M service that resulted in the initial decision to perform th...