You can now get paid more for helping your patients manage their chronic pain – if you know how to correctly utilize the new 2023 codes G3002 and G3003.
These new codes make it easier for you to justify and get paid for the chronic pain management services you provide. How? Unlike billing for other chronic pain services, Medicare has clearly spelled out what constitutes “chronic pain.” Previously, this definition was not clear. Knowing how to decipher and implement the definition of chronic pain can mean the difference between getting paid or providing these services for free.
Codes G3002 and G3003 bundle together multiple aspects of treating patients with chronic pain (i.e., assessment, diagnosis, monitoring, working with other clinicians, etc.).
The care you provide to patients with chronic pain can easily complicate your billing process, making getting accurately paid for these services harder than ever. This is where nationally recognized Coder and Educator, Kim Huey MJ, CHC, CPC, CCS-P, PCS, CPCO, can help.
Kim will present a 60-minute online training that will walk you through exactly how to code and bill for chronic pain management services (G3002/G3003) more accurately so you can get paid more of what you are rightfully due. Here are just a few of the questions you’ll get answered during this online training:
- Can you bill an E/M office visit (99202-99215) with chronic pain management codes?
- How do rules differ for Advanced Practice Providers: incident-to, direct billing, and supervision?
- What other services are bundled with codes G3002 and G3003?
- Can chronic pain management services increase my E/M level complexity?
- Can chronic pain management be provided via telehealth, or is face-to-face required?
- Can G3002 and G3003 be billed separately? If yes, how?
- How does the duration of a physician visit affect your coding?
- Is there any difference when billing newly diagnosed vs. long-time chronic pain patients?
- What specific patient consent do you need to bill codes G3002 and G3003?
- Can you be paid extra for coordinating services with other providers?
- What monthly revenue per patient can you expect when utilizing these new codes?
- Can codes G3002 and G3003 be used for both new and established patients?
- Can G3002 be billed with other chronic care & management services: CCM, TCM, RPM?
- And so much more …
Who Will Benefit? All practices providing chronic pain management services to patients will benefit from this upcoming online training. Typically, these specialties include Anesthesia, Sports Medicine, Neurosurgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Chronic Care, Pain, Oncology, Interventional Radiology, Neurology, Rheumatology, Psychiatry, and PM&R.
With the addition of the new 2023 Chronic Pain Management codes G3002 and G3003, you now have a choice. Your chronic pain patients can either make your practice money, or they can increase your audit risk, reduce your reimbursement and result in hefty payer revenue recoupments. But, of course, it all depends on whether you correctly bill these new chronic pain management codes.
Obviously, you want to be paid everything possible for the care you provide to your chronic pain patients. However, this can be easier said than done. The answers lie in your utilization of the new 2023 chronic pain management codes (G3002, G3003) and your ability to comply with their newly implemented regulations. Don’t delay. Register for this expert-led limited-access online training today.
Kim is an independent coding and reimbursement consultant, providing audit, training and oversight of coding and reimbursement functions for physicians. Kim completed three years of pre-medical education at the University of Alabama before she decided that she preferred the business side of medicine.
She completed a Bachelor’s degree in Health Care Management and went on to obtain certification through the American Academy of Professional Coders and the American Health Information Management Association.
Recognizing the important position of compliance in today’s world, she has also obtained certification as a Certified Healthcare Compliance Consultant and a Certified Healthcare Audit Professional. Kim is also an AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM trainer and has recently earned a Master of Jurisprudence in Health Law.
For over twenty-five years, Kim has worked with providers in virtually all specialties, from General Surgery to Obstetrics/Gynecology to Oncology to Internal Medicine and beyond. She has spoken at the national conference for numerous organizations.
The webinar was excellent and provided a lot of helpful information around these new CPM codes! The presenter was engaging and easy to listen to. Kim answered the questions very straightforward, and clarified a lot of questions we had around these new codes.
Janet Sizemore
Accounts Payable Supervisor, Novant Health
