Hospital Billing

What codes can we bill instead of hospital consults. Can we bill initial hospital office?

Dec 9th, 2009 - nmaguire 2,606

consults

For Medicare bill the initial encounter codes, as appropriate. (eg, 99221-99223).

Dec 9th, 2009 - Codapedia Editor 1,399

consults

And, take a look at the Codapedia article: CMS eliminates payment for consults.

The transmittal with the details must come out between now and Jan 1. Is it too much to hope that it might be this week, or next???

Whenever it is released, I will review it, edit the article, and post a message on this forum about the details.

The suspense is killing me!