Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), with an average annual salary of $140,350 USD in 2004, rank as the ninth highest paid professionals. Computer and Information Technology (IT) managers rank as the twentieth highest earning professionals with an average 2004 income of $92,570 USD.ccording to the Survey, optometrists, with an average salary of $88,410 in 2004, are the twenty-third highest paid professionals in the United States. Business and technology management professions occupy three of the 25 highest paid professions listed on the Occupational Statistics Survey.
Initial Preventive Physical Examination (IPPE) (G0402) also known as the Welcome to Medicare Visit. The goals of the IPPE are health promotion and disease prevention and detection. This code can only be billed when the services are provided during the first twelve months the patient is enrolled in Medicare Part B. The IPPE is a single once-per-lifetime benefit.
only be used for a beneficiary who is no longer within the first twelve months after the effective date of Medicare Part B coverage; and if he/she has not already received either an IPPE or an AWV within the past twelve months. Medicare pays for only one initial AWV per beneficiary per lifetime. Subsequent AWVâs (G0439) include a PPPS also. This code is to be used in the years subsequent to the