DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2009 Issue 12 (December)

CMS unveils modifier ‘AI' for use after consults are eliminated

You now have a game plan for successfully billing initial E/M visits in hospitals or nursing facilities when your physician is the admitting physician and other providers are also billing initial inpatient codes for the patient's care, a scenario that becomes possible after Medicare consult billing is eliminated Jan. 1.

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to the DecisionHealth Newsletters.

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.