What is the correct E/M code for this service?
Skilled Nursing Home Visit
Date of service: 1/9/14 Last date of treatment: 12/22/13
Physician visits and elderly patient in the skilled care facility. Physician performs a
detailed interval history, comprehensive examination, and medical decision making is of
moderate complexity. In addition, the physician reviewed the medical record and the
recent lab results.
a. 99305
b. 99306
c. 99309
d. 99310
c. 99309
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