I do billing for a psychologist. Most patients average six visits (one a week), and then they are gone, and case is closed.
I have a patient who was last here on 10-20-2010, then came back on 10-07-2011.
I did not bill this patient as 90801 - what I always bill a new patient, I billed 90806, as a continuing patient.
Should I have billed as a new patient? I cannot find my billing school book to look it up, but I thought 12 months had to pass between visits, or - they changed insurance companies before I could officially call them a new patient.
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NuBiker