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Watch Terminology With Consults

Published on Wed Dec 19, 2018

Question: Thank you for your article last month about consult coding. One of our main payers still reimburses for these visits and we see them from time to time. Here’s the problem – one of our physicians writes “consult” on every new patient chart. This is confusing for our billing service, which is an outside vendor. Is there a way [...]
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