BC Advantage - 2010 Issue 5

Consultations for Medicare are now a four-letter word - Gone!

Unless you're talking about consultations performed via telehealth, consultation codes are gone. While CMS will continue to recognize telehealth consultation G-codes for payment consideration, it stopped recognizing the CPT consult codes effective for dates of service on and after January 1, 2010. The November 25, 2009 edition of the Federal Register contains the 2010 physician fee schedule final rule and includes a fascinating discussion on this topic.  CMS gave an historical account of its efforts to get clinicians, as well as its own contractors, to understand Medicare's guidelines for consults. In this account, CMS referenced the March 2006...

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