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If you bill the consult code if you have commercial insurance as your primary and your secondary is medicare. Is it illegal?
Example Pt has
BC/BS and we send out claim Hospital consult inpatient. And Medicare is secondary.
Are we Still supposed to follow medicare guidelines.
We bill 99222 Consult crosswalk to visit. (We are losing money)
When we could keep it and bill it as primary 99254. Since his primary is BC/BS as per medicare.
Example Pt has
BC/BS and we send out claim Hospital consult inpatient. And Medicare is secondary.
Are we Still supposed to follow medicare guidelines.
We bill 99222 Consult crosswalk to visit. (We are losing money)
When we could keep it and bill it as primary 99254. Since his primary is BC/BS as per medicare.