H. and P.'s for ophthalmologist

[Guest guest]

An ophthalmologist in town would like me to do H. and P.'s for

patients needing surgery for cataracts, lid ptosis and a few other

procefures that he mostly

does at an outpatient surgery center. The surgery center requires

an H. and P. I am wondering if I can bill for this

separately from his procedure, and if so, what codes to use?

Anybody have any experience or ideas? He does not like to do them

and and feels he is rusty on a lot of the meds, so he feels it

would improve his quality possibly. A company that uses PA's has

approached him to do them for free to him, but they would bill the

insurance, so I assume it can be done that way. I suppose if the

patients have their own doctor, it might be better medicine to have

the PMD do them,

but there are often problems getting it done with all the paper

work ready for the time of surgery, so he would rather have a

deal set up with me so they will be done when he needs them and

he only has to deal with one source for his H. and P.'s.

Caldwell

Tulare, CA