A primary care physician in the patient’s very small hometown sees the patient and recommends a partial lumpectomy for a 0.9-cm lesion in the right breast.

Physician Encounter: A primary care physician in the patient’s very small hometown sees the patient and recommends a partial lumpectomy for a 0.9-cm lesion in the right breast. The primary care physician completes a very thorough preoperative evaluation and refers the patient to a general surgeon in a neighboring, much larger community. for the actual removal of the lump. The primary care practitioner (PCP) asks that the general surgeon perform the lumpectomy only. The patient has the lumpectomy and returns back home to the care of the primary care physician. How would the surgeon’s and PCP’s services be coded? Surgeon: 19301-52: PCP: 19301 Surgeon: 19301-54: PCP: 19301-55-56 Surgeon: 19101-54; PCP: 19301-55-56 Surgeon: 19101-54: PCP: 19301. 99213 as?!»