tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 18

OIG Adds Consults to Injury

3 Easy Ways to Avoid TroubleIf your doctor regularly receives patients from another physician, you'd better make sure both of them are writing down the right words to pass muster as a consult. The HHS Office of Inspector General listed consults as one of its hot-button issues for 2003, and physician offices are freaking out. But even before the OIG noticed this issue, many offices had a problem with billing for consults, says Mary I. Falbo, president of Millennium Healthcare Consulting Inc. in Lansdale, Pa. "It's getting more attention because it's on the OIG radar screen." There...

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