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[asasands]

I was hoping to get some help. One of our general surgeons consulted a patient in the hospital. Our doctor did not admit the patient and the patient was admitted later. This is not a medicare patient. Do I code for an outpatient consult?

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[FTessaBartels]

Where was patient seen?

So was the patient in the ER? Or in the hospital but under observation when your doctor saw for the consult?

If not a Medicare patient - for now - you use the regular consultation codes. Depending on whether patient was an inpatient when seen by you, this is either an outpatient or inpatient consult.


F Tessa Bartels, CPC, CEMC