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Still Billing Consults? Differentiate From Transfer of Care With These Tips

Published on Thu Aug 17, 2017

Remember Medicare's no-go consult rule first and foremost. When CMS stopped paying for consults in 2010, some practices eliminated them from the code lineup completely, while others kept using them, but threw the CMS rules out the window. The reality is that you must still know the differences between consults and transfers of care to report these services, because some [...]
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