According to the Federal Register, the Definition of a "New

According to the Federal Register, the definition of a "new" patient when assigning a CPT Evaluation and Management (medical visit) code to a Medicare hospital outpatient under the prospective payment system is a patient that has

A) not seen the physician within the last 3 years.
B) not seen the physician within the last 5 years.
C) not already been assigned a medical record number.
D) never seen the physician before.