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HCPCS Code for Follow-up inpatient consultation, limited, physicians typically spend 15 minutes communicating with the patient via telehealth G0406

HCPCS code G0406 for Follow-up inpatient consultation, limited, physicians typically spend 15 minutes communicating with the patient via telehealth as maintained by CMS falls under Followup Telehealth Consultations .

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Follow-up inpatient consultation, limited, physicians typically spend 15 minutes communicating with the patient via telehealth

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Billing F-up IP consultation via telehealth G0406
I just started billing these codes. Can someone tell me if the POS to be use for these codes is 11 or 21 since the patient was in the hospital during the video/phone consultation? Is modifier 95 need... [ Read More ]
Inpatient telehealth f/u consultation for Medicare PT
Our pain management doctor did a telehealth consultation with an inpatient patient. I have to check with him if he used both audio and video, or just a telephone call. 1) If he used both audio & vid... [ Read More ]
Covid IP sub day non face to face
Any thoughts on sub day visits IP non face to face with covid patient that is not a telemedicine visit. The doctor reviewed the chart and made mdm but did not see the pt face to face for an exam due t... [ Read More ]
Medicare Telehealth Billing
Hi There The series of codes for tele health for Medicare patients are G series. G0406, G0407, G0408 follow up Inpt calls) so check out G0425-G0427 and check out G2061 to G2063 in the HCPCS manual. ... [ Read More ]
Additional time needed for G0406-G0408
What service is you NP providing at the SNF? G0406-G0408 is for follow-up consultations - these codes would only be for consultations that have been ordered by the patient's attending physician for a... [ Read More ]
Additional time needed for G0406-G0408
Good morning, Hope someone can help me. Since the Covid 19 pandemic, my NP clinicians have been seeing patients in SNF's. They are going beyond the times for the G0406-G0408 codes. Is there anothe... [ Read More ]
Hospital TELEHEALTH
What services are being provided? G0425-G0427 are for consultations, so these would be appropriate if the patient's attending physician had requested an internal medicine consultation from you provid... [ Read More ]
Modifier 95, GT, QT with telehealth services
[B][U]Medicare Telehealth Visits: [/U][/B] Effective for services starting March 6, 2020, and for the duration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), Medicare will make payments for Medicare t... [ Read More ]
Inpatient Hospital Billing for Telehealth - HELP billing inpatient telehealth/telemedicine
Can anyone please inform me if any of their MD's are seeing patient's remotely from home and using telehealth/telemedicine charges. If so what are you using to bill to the insurances G0406-G0408? or s... [ Read More ]
TeleHealth CMS reg on admitting and discharging physicians
That is correct. Here is a link to the CMS guide to telehealth - pages 5-8 have a list of the services that can be billed as telehealth. The only inpatient E/M services included here are consultatio... [ Read More ]
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