mmelcam
Expert
My physician was called to the hospital to do a consult on a Medicare patient. The patient had been in the hospital for a week already so we were not the admitting physician. We have never seen the patient before. I know that I can no longer use the consult code because the patient is Medicare. The new patient codes are for office or outpatient visit only. The initial hospital care code states that it is to be reported by the admitting physician. Does this mean I am only left with subsequent hospital care codes or am I missing something??