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The 8-Minute Rule

Wondering how to determine how many units per visit to bill for a medical nutrition therapy encounter? When coding on the basis of time in the outpatient setting, the total minutes of face-to-face time spent per encounter dictates how many units of a time-based code a qualified provider may bill.

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