AMA CPT® Assistant - 2002 Issue 5 (May)
Preventive Medicine Services (May 2002)
May 2002 pages 1-4 Preventive Medicine Services The definition of "comprehensive" in relation to the preventive medicine services codes has been a source of some misunderstanding. For that reason, revisions were made in CPT 2002 to help clarify or differentiate the "comprehensive" nature of the examination associated with preventive medicine E/M services codes 99381-99397 from the "comprehensive" examination for other E/M services codes (eg, 99204, 99205, 99215). The preventive medicine services guidelines were revised in 2002 to clarify that the comprehensive nature of the examination associated with preventive medicine codes 99381-99397 reflects an age and gender appropriate history/exam, which...
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