This blog is going to raise more questions than it answers, but one let's get one of the few clear answers we have out of the way: pediatricians do not appear to follow Bright Futures' periodicity...
96110 Coverage During Well Visits
I originally started this blog as an effort to publicly share resources and stories that I've gathered over the years and boy did I just land a doozy. Thanks to Jan @ PCC, who dug up A Table of All...
It looks like your hard work paid off! From a CMS bulletin dated 12/29/2011:
The AAP has issued an important call to action for pediatricians, and those who work for them, relating to a proposed change to the 96110 CPT code, a subject about which I've written many times...
A request was made on SOAPM for a better understanding of the payment for developmental screening, namely the 96110 and 96111. Here's the update for 1Q 2011, where we examined tens of thousands of...
OK, I think I have written about the 96110 more than any other specific subject!
Who Pays For What? Today: the 96110
I have had a number of off-line and on-line requests for details about who, exactly, is paying for the deveopmental testing (96110 and 96111) and non-face-to-face codes (or the "telephone codes"), so...
96110 Update
I've written extensively about 96110 usage among practicing pediatricians in the past and wanted to provide an update for 2008/9.
96110 Developmental Test Data (Not Eagleville, CA)
This weekend, a very faithful reader wrote to me:
Final 96110 and More Personalized Medicine
I have some fascinating data about the after hours, etc., codes (9905x) coming, but I wanted to share these two followup tidbits before I forget: