Physician Assistant, Heather Dalwadi’s, last day with us here at Maryland Endocrine was on 1/24/25. If you had an upcoming appointment with her, please reach out to us via phone at 301-953-2080 or utilize the live feature on our chatbot. Someone at the office will be reaching out to you as well, to try to reschedule with another provider sometime in the upcoming months. Thank you!
MARYLAND ENDOCRINE’S NEW LOCATION UPDATE
We have now moved our office and will begin seeing patients this week at the 5500 Knoll North Drive, Suite 510, Columbia, MD 21045, location. We look forward to seeing all of you in our new space.
Thank you!!
PATIENT PORTAL/Healow App
Portal Medicine Update
Patient portal communication with a physician that is initiated by the patient and requires significant physician review, evaluation and response is a valuable professional service that helps patients improve or maintain their health between visits. Such communications can require significant physician time and effort and therefore may generate a portal telemedicine charge. Simple prescription refill requests and other administrative matters will not generate a telemedicine charge. Matters requiring a telephone call from the physician to the patient are also recognized as a physician service by Medicare and some other insurers and may generate a phone telemedicine charge.
Possible levels for portal telemedicine visits per Medicare guidelines are CPT codes 99421 for 5-10 minutes over 7 days, 99422 for 10-20 minutes over 7 days, 99423 for 21 or more minutes over 7 days. Medicare also recognizes telephone visits, CPT codes 99441 (5-10 minutes), 99442 (11-20 minutes), and 99443 (21-30 minutes). Medicare recognizes and covers these telemedicine or telephone visit service codes. Like other covered services, they might generate a patient co-payment responsibility. Coverage policies of other insurance companies vary for telemedicine portal and phone visits.