Is an annual wellness visit (AWV) or “Welcome to Medicare Visit” required before CCM services can be billed? Yes. CMS requires an AWV, welcome visit, OR comprehensive E/M before CCM services can be billed. Are there any codes that cannot be billed in the same month as 99490? Yes. ...
Medicare RBRVS Changes in 2025 (January 2025) Reporting New Transcranial Doppler Study Codes (93896-93898) (January 2025) Reporting Optical Coherence Tomography (92132-92134, 92137) (January 2025) Reporting Transcatheter Therapeutic Drug Delivery by Intracoronary Drug-Delivery Balloon (January 2025) Quest...
Medicare’s requirements on this point are slightly different: While the physician’s presence is not required at every 99211 services involving a Medicare patient, the physician must have initiated the service as part of a continuing plan of care in which he or she will be an ongoing particip...