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General Category => General Questions => : starlets September 05, 2018, 03:12:23 PM

: Primary physician medical coding
: starlets September 05, 2018, 03:12:23 PM

Can CPT code 90471 be billed on a separate claim or does code have to be billed only with an office visit code? which will pay more for CPT code 90471, which is a vaccine shot.

Kind regards,

Star S

: Re: Primary physician medical coding
: PMRNC September 06, 2018, 11:29:11 AM

This is not really a good general question. First it's not really a good idea to bill a CPT or ICD-10 based on the "higher reimbursement" services are coded via the physicians documentation. If patient is coming in JUST for a vaccine it would be appropriate only to bill the vaccine. If they are there for a well checkup, focused problem, etc then you would bill the appropriate E/M code with it but again, it's all according to what REALLY was done, not which pays more.