DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2009 Issue 11 (November)

No clear crosswalk from inpatient consults to initial hospital care

You'll get paid more for lower-level initial hospital care visits compared to lower-level consultation codes - but you'll first need to brush up on documenting and billing E/M visits in order to get paid. TIP: Review with your physicians the requirements for billing E/M codes, including initial hospital care (99221-99223) right away. You have less than two months before you can no longer use consult billing for your Medicare patients.

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