CPT Knowledgebase - Nov 4, 2022

With the 2021 E/M Guidelines, one of the presentations stated that a new problem meant it was new to the patient, not the provider (as was in CMS 95/97). Can you confirm this is correct? As an example, a patient has been diagnosed with migraines treated by their primary care provider (PCP) but decides to get another opinion from a neurologist. Would this be a new problem to the neurologist?

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