What is procedure code 99395?

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99395 - CPT Code in category: Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation and management of an individual including an age and gender appropriate history, examination**,** counseling**/**anticipatory guidance/risk factor reduction interventions, and the ordering of laboratory/diagnostic procedures, established

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There are right and wrong ways to code these exams. If you perform a comprehensive physical, choose a procedure code from the Preventive Medicine codes CPT 99381-99387 for a new patient, or CPT 99391-99397 for an established patient, and select the code based on the patients age.

Secondly, what is the CPT code for preventive care exam? Preventive visit codes 99381-99397 include “counseling/anticipatory guidance/risk factor reduction interventions,” according to CPT. However, when such counseling is provided as part of a separate problem-oriented encounter, it may be billed using preventive medicine codes 99401-99409.

One may also ask, what is the CPT code for wellness exam?

Again, billing is not done using the normal wellness-exam CPT codes (99381-99397) – such claims will be rejected by Medicare as “non-covered services” – but instead one uses new, Medicare-only codes: G0438 for initial visits, and G0439 for subsequent visits. These codes became effective January 1, 2011.

What is the CPT code for well woman exam?

The appropriate diagnostic link for the CPT preventive gyn annual well-woman exam is V72.