When you visit a healthcare facility, your provider uses CPT codes to let your insurer or payer know which services you got from them. The insurer or payer then reimburses the provider based on the CPT codes. You can see the codes on your discharge paperwork, bills, and benefit statements...
> Procedure Codes.Click the New CPT/HCPCS button. Add the code name in the Code field. Only the first five (5) digits will be sent on the claim; any added extensions will not populate.Use the Type drop-down menu to select the code Type. Selecting Retail will set this charge to the...
Coding for well visits is much trickier. Well visit codes will be shown as 9938x or 9939x, where x is again 1-5 but now represents the age of the patient. “Typical” resources needed are fairly consistent from age to age so CPT E/M codes define a “typical minimum” that must be ...