3 most common primary care billing codes haven’t changed in recent months

Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review

From January to April, the three most common primary care services didn’t change, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Fair Health, a healthcare cost data organization.

Here are the three most common primary care billing codes, and their ranking, for January through April 2020:

1. Office outpatient visit, 15 minutes (99213)
2. Office outpatient visit, 25 minutes (99214)
3. Collection venous blood venipuncture (36415)