Counseling Risk Factor Reduction and Behavior Change Intervention 99401-99412 describes services provided directly to patients and/or family to promote health and prevent illness or injury.

These codes would be reported if a physician councils a patient or a patients relative about a patients bad habits that are causing health problems to a patient such as alcoholism, smoking etc... They are also used for future protection of the patient so that hopefully they don't get hurt in the future after a procedure or an injury.
Telephone Services CPT codes 99441-99443 describe non-face to face E/M services provided to a patient over the telephone.
Lets say a patient calls a physician to ask a question about something she has discovered …show more content…
A patient emails her physician to ask him a question regarding a treatment she has been receiving for over a year. She thinks that she might developing immunity to the treatment. The doctor can report this code only once during the online communication. Since she has been recieving the treatment for over a year and not just within the last seven days he can use this code.
These services may be reported separately during a Preventative Medicine Service; vaccine products, immunization administration, ancillary laboratory or radiological studies; vision, hearing or developmental screening and others.
Care to a newborn can occur in two different places a Hospital or Birthing Center
A Birthing Center is designed for women who prefer to have a natural childbirth experience usually a Midwife or an Obstretrician helps the mother while in labor and giving birth. The center is very low tech and is not prepared in handling emergencies. In the instance of an emergency the patient or newborn will be transfered to a hospital. Birthing Centers are usually freestanding but can also be in a