Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
Beware New Bundles For
Important changes are coming down the pike for inpatient consultation codes.
All codes for initial and follow-up inpatient consultations (99251-99263) are becoming components of observation or inpatient hospital care codes 99234-99236. In other words, you can no longer bill for a consult if the physician also placed the patient under observation or admitted him or her as an inpatient. Further, you can't override these edits using a modifier.
Also in the CCI update:
Utererolysis "is not a procedure that we do often, but it's usually done alone, so I don't think it would be a problem," said Connie Copeland, coder and HIPAA compliance officer for Urology Professional Association in Tupelo, Miss.
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