Hello!  I'm hoping for some helpful tips.

I am a volunteer mother-to-mother breastfeeding counselor, currently 
"between organizations."  I have been doing this for 3 years.

I am also a family physician, recently back in private practice, seeing 
moms and babies (not many yet, but hopefully more soon!).  Wearing this 
hat, I saw my first breastfeeding patient last week.  I'm "lucky" in 
that I'm able to bill as an MD ... but then I need the coding to back it 
up.  I used "Breast pain" for this consultation, b/c that was, in fact, 
the main complaint.  If I had seen the baby, I could have coded for the 
labial and lingual frena found on exam. I am also looking for other 
common codes - I only found breast pain and mastitis on a quick code search.

Anyone out there with a list of commonly used codes?

Thanks :)

Spencer  ... who enjoyed the luxury of spending an hour+ with this 
patient, b/c I saw her outside normal office hours, and who wonders how 
things would go trying to squeeze a BF visit into a busy office schedule ...

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