Michele, From what I can tell, for a female patient,and when my practitioner performs each service, I would use a G0402 (Welcome to medicare prevention exam),G0403 ( welcome to medicare ekg), and and G0101 for welcome to medicare pelvic,breast exam. In addition there is a welcome to medicare prostate exam for men. My interpretation of the medicare guidelines is that each of these is a separately identifiable procedure/exam and can be billed as such. and...if the person represents himself/herself with problems that require additional management/care at the time of visit I can bill for an E&M visit. I am very new to this. It is an extremely small rural office with many aging patients. We have many problems with reimbursement/payment and I only want to get her reimbursement for her extremely hard work for, and dedication to, this community.
I sincerely appreciate your responses to my questions.