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Think You Understand the New Consult Rules? Find Out Fast

Published on Sat Jan 23, 2010

Test your 2010 consultation coding understanding with these questions. Consultation coding has every practice on edge this year. Ensure that you've got a handle on this complicated coding and billing situation by taking this three-question quiz and then checking your answers against the experts' on page 12. Question 1: When a visit with a Medicare inpatient that would normally have been coded as a consultation does not meet the requirements of an initial inpatient hospital care code, what should you report? Question 2: What modifier do admitting physicians need to use in 2010 when they report an initial hospital care code (99221-99223)? Question 3: When Medicare is the patient's secondary insurance and his primary insurance accepts the consultation codes, should you use a consultation code for the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) as well?
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