Dr. Tina Smillie wrote a pamphlet for physician coding for lactation
visits.  It is available on the AAP website at
http://www.aap.org/breastfeeding/files/pdf/coding.pdf

Christia Bridges-Jones, IBCLC
Chandler, AZ

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Spencer Joslin-Montlick <
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> 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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