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Telephone Codes (California Work Comp Fees-$13.60/$34.85/$69.70)
Codes 99371=99373 covers telephone calls by a physician for patient care. They include, but are not limited to; the coordinating medical management with other health care professionals.
99371 Telephone call by a physician to patient for consultation or medical management or for coordinating medical management with other health car professionals
(eg, nurses, therapists, social workers, nutritionists, physician, pharmacists) simple or brief
(eg, to report on tests and/or laboratory results, to clarify or alter previous instructions, to integrate the information from other health professionals into the medical treatment plan, or to adjust therapy).
99372 Intermediate (eg, to provide advice to an established patient on a new problem, to initiate therapy that can be handled by telephone, to discuss test results in detail, to coordinate medical management of a new problem in an established patient, to discuss and evaluate new information and details, or to initiate new plan of care).
99373 Complex or lengthy (eg, lengthy counseling sessions with anxious or distraught patient, detailed or prolonged discussion with family members regarding seriously ill patient, lengthy communication necessary to coordinate complex services of several different health professionals working on different aspects of the total patient care plan).
Team Conference Codes 99361-99362 and Care Plan Oversight Services Codes
99374-99380 also fall into these seldom and overlooked categories of codes not being billed by the physicians.
(California Work Comp Fees…$96.90-$152.16)