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Clear Up Consultation Coding Conundrums, Regardless of the Payer

Published on Mon Aug 24, 2015

Not all payers follow Medicare rules. For the past several years, you haven’t been able to report consultation codes to Medicare, but not all payers follow that same rule. To make things even more complicated, if the payer still accepts consultation codes, the documentation must contain key elements before you can actually bill one. These confusing rules mean that every [...]
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