deyoung
Guru
Our psychiatrists provide a consult service for the ER. The ER has a separate area for psych patients. There are 2 scenarios:
1. Patient goes into a medical room (not the separate psych area), seen by ER Dr because they may have physical conditions, then if needed he requests a psych consult to eval for mental condition.
2. Patient comes in, triaged by nurse, sends patient to psych area to be evaluated. After psychiatrists eval's patient then needs to be cleared by medical doctor.
Our psychiatrists have been billing 90801 for both scenarios. We recently been looking into using E/M consult codes to see if those would be more appropriate for the ER. The more I dig into this the more I think we 90801 may be the most appropriate.
Please share your thoughts.
1. Patient goes into a medical room (not the separate psych area), seen by ER Dr because they may have physical conditions, then if needed he requests a psych consult to eval for mental condition.
2. Patient comes in, triaged by nurse, sends patient to psych area to be evaluated. After psychiatrists eval's patient then needs to be cleared by medical doctor.
Our psychiatrists have been billing 90801 for both scenarios. We recently been looking into using E/M consult codes to see if those would be more appropriate for the ER. The more I dig into this the more I think we 90801 may be the most appropriate.
Please share your thoughts.