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If the service provided was a Psychiatric diagnostic interview examination and documentation for the date of service supports that....then 90801 is the most specific code. You would not bill the 99205 New Patient office/outpatient code. As a coder you should code to the most specific code available for the service or procedure.
Not knowing your reason for wanting to switch codes, I offer the following caution: Do not condider billing 99205 rather than the 90801 because reimbursement is better...that could be considered "coding for reimbursement" and that could be considered Fraud. I'm sure that's not your intention.
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