Hello.
I am trying to find a list of services that a registered dietitian can bill Medicare for. While the Medicare IOM seems to imply they may bill E&M under incident to guidelines, I am wondering if they can just bill E&M on their own also? We are wondering if we can bill other codes instead of G0108, if the specific guidelines for G0108 have not been met. ie , they only saw the patient for 25 minutes. Can we just bill a 99211 under the dietitian?
I do understand these providers can not diagnosis or treat any other issues, so I do not think that 99212 or higher would be appropriate. But I also think that 98702/98703 may not be appropriate either.
Any thoughts or references to cms policies out there?
Thank you!
I am trying to find a list of services that a registered dietitian can bill Medicare for. While the Medicare IOM seems to imply they may bill E&M under incident to guidelines, I am wondering if they can just bill E&M on their own also? We are wondering if we can bill other codes instead of G0108, if the specific guidelines for G0108 have not been met. ie , they only saw the patient for 25 minutes. Can we just bill a 99211 under the dietitian?
I do understand these providers can not diagnosis or treat any other issues, so I do not think that 99212 or higher would be appropriate. But I also think that 98702/98703 may not be appropriate either.
Any thoughts or references to cms policies out there?
Thank you!