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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s combining an annual wellness visit with a “problem” that is usually the issue.[/quote]

But it's exactly during wellness visits where they should find or discuss any problems, FFS.
And they are not "free" visits. We all pay dearly in premiums and insurance companies (though sometimes it doesn't feel like it) actually want to find problems before they balloon into big expensive problems. This is exactly what wellness visits are for.
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It’s not what wellness visits are for as far as the insurance company is concerned. People really need to understand this. Wellness visits are about preventative care and the components are pretty clearly outlined. That is entirely different than problem visits. It is possible to Join a problem visit to a well person visit ( e.g. You go for your well person/Pap , and mention you think you have a yeast infection and they do that additional exam and offer treatment- hats a preventive care visit plus a 99214 level prob visit.) Please understand medical providers. HATE this coding stuff as much as patients do. But we get it drilled into us that if we don’t code appropriately, it’s insurance fraud that includes in billed “problems“ in the well person visit.[/quote]

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