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Ring In the New Year With 'Consult' Note Coding Perfection

Published on Mon Jan 17, 2011

Don't forget applicable modifiers.Medicare no longer recognizes consult codes, so you have to put on your thinking cap to code this note. First, check out the operative note and our expert's advice:CONSULTING PHYSICIAN: John Q. Sample, MDADMIT DATE: 12/01/2010CONSULTATION DATE: 12/15/2010CONSULTATION REPORT: This is an 88-year-old female who is in the hospital now for abdominal wall corrective surgery. Saturday this past week she had a hyperbaric chamber run and had hearing change as a result. She says she has had perfectly good hearing up until this point and she said she had a little bleeding from her left ear. The question comes whether hyperbaric is the cause of her ear troubles or whether there is something more dramatic. She has no dizziness. She has no pain right now. She is hearing better from her right ear than the left. She currently is in the ICU. I have been unable to [...]
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