Inpatient Consult

[cyndy090306@aol.com]

If a patient was in the hospital and a consult was requested from a provider and then a month later that same provider was called in to do another consult for a new problem and the patient had been in the hospital the whole time, would you bill a new consult or subsequent visit?

 

[Jennifer Turner]

Yes, you would bill a new consult because it was for a new problem. Therefore your diagnosis should be different from the last.