{"id":5008,"date":"2014-12-22T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T12:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2025-05-24T05:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T05:57:12","slug":"medical-coding-and-billing-changes-for-family-practice-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/medical-coding-and-billing-changes-for-family-practice-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Coding and Billing Changes for Family Practice in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CPT 2015 will have approximately 550 new, revised, or deleted codes. It will also include revised guidelines and terminologies. These changes will affect family medicine physicians, cardiologists, radiologists, and internal medicine practitioners too. Similar to other medical specialties, family medicine will have to gear up for dozens of new and revised vaccine codes in 2015.<\/p>\n

It will include additions of 90630 and 90654 codes for flu immunizations. Our\u00a0Family Practice billing<\/em>\u00a0services team can provide you with high-quality and error-free patient demographic and Family Practice charge entry services.<\/p>\n

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The 2015 coding changes will alter the way family medicine practices report vaccinations, chronic care management services, and arthrocentesis (joint aspiration). Some descriptor changes to old codes will also affect this medical specialty.<\/p>\n

Coding Changes for Family Practice Medicine Practitioners<\/b><\/h2>\n

Family medicine providers need to take CPT coding changes into serious consideration if they want to make the most of their reimbursement opportunities. Here are some of the CPT 2015 code revisions, deletions, and additions that will affect family medicine practitioners in the next year.<\/p>\n

Two new vaccine codes will be added in 2015, just like it was done in 2014. These two new codes and descriptor changes for vaccination will include:<\/p>\n