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I find that I rarely do 99213 follow-up visits, and I don’t think I have ever done a 99203 new patient visit. Is this normal in Hem/Onc community practice? My 99213s are probably ~10% of total visits, if that. Usually MGUS, iron deficiency anemia which has now resolved, anemia with chronic kidney disease, AML/APL/Hogkin on clinical and lab surveillance 10 years out, early stage colon cancer on clinical and lab surveillance 5 years out etc. And even for these, they frequently have another medical problem, most likely hypertension, and since their BP is measured and their meds are reviewed, I document this and say something like BP is good, continue antihypertensive regimen, or BP high, recommend measuring at home and following up with PCP, and as this is discussed, it gets added on as a second problem, and now it becomes a 99214. Is this reasonable? Just want to make sure this is what others are doing as well, or if you think I should change practice. Thank you.