Advance Care Planning

Advanced Care Planning CPT Codes: Billing and Privacy

Advance care planning generates a time-based billing record, a consent note, and a legal directive document — three artifacts with different retention, access, and vendor implications. Here's how to run the workflow without creating an audit or privacy problem.

CPT 99497

CPT 99497: An Operations Guide for Practice Admins

A practical guide to CPT 99497 for administrators and billing staff: what the time documentation has to show, how the annual wellness visit overlap works, and how to control the vendor and records-request exposure an advance care planning note creates.

HIPAA

99497 CPT Code Description: A Practice Admin's Guide

Advance care planning billing runs on a documented time statement, a consented conversation, and a paper document that ends up in three systems. Here's how administrators build the workflow and control the privacy exposure it creates.