tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 4

CONSULTS: Protect Your Consult Reimbursement By Educating Referring Physician's Staff

7 tips for complying with changed consult rules Consults used to have three R's for documentation: Request, Render and Report. Now there's a fourth R: You have to indicate the Reason for the consult in both the requesting and consulting physician's files. Complying with CMS' new rules on consult documentation will be a challenge, but experts offer the following tips: • Document, then consult: It's not enough for the requesting physician's file to have the consulting physician's report after the fact. The request must be in the requesting physician's chart before the consult happens, says Barbara Cobuzzi with...

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