A surreal moment - I am in Richmond, VA listening to Dr.Lander talk about coding during the Pediatric Alliance/VAAAP event while working on the blog. And watching my laptopbattery drain quickly!
About a year ago, we did a quick run-down on the "non face-to-face"codes, more commonly known as "billing for phone calls." It was both encouraging and sad at the same time. Time foran update.
Things are still sad - it's a small minority of PCC clients using thecodes (5%?). However, the news is not all bad.
We have insurance payments, now, in 13 states - CA, MA, NJ, MD, PA,VT, MI, GA, OH, NY, IL, WA, and KY.
We have some major growth in the non-physician phone codeusage (98966-98968).
Below, I've split the results into two categories - how much was charged/paid when the code is paid and how much is charged/paid overall. Note that there isn't a whole lot use of these codes when it's not being paid.
| Code |
Average Charge |
Average Payment |
| 99441 ($ > 0) |
$18.80 |
$6.69 |
| 99442 ($ > 0) |
$37.33 |
$17.28 |
| 99443 ($ > 0) |
$55.03 |
$25.46 |
| 98966 ($ > 0) |
$14.72 |
$6.95 |
| 98967 ($ > 0) |
$33.75 |
$7.91 |
| 98968 ($ > 0) |
$35.00 |
$35.00 |
| 99441 (overall) |
$18.81 |
$5.34 |
| 99442 (overall) |
$37.26 |
$13.85 |
| 98966 (overall) |
$15.00 |
$6.79 |
| 98967 (overall) |
$32.73 |
$3.29 |
| 98968 (overall) |
$49.00 |
$3.50 |
Interesting, certainly, no?
Back to the meeting!
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