By now, you’ve heard the news: CMS did eliminate payment for consults
beginning January 1, 2010 in their Final Rule. Your practice has only
weeks to develop your coding procedures for reporting these services
and educate physicians, Non-Physician Practitioners, coders and
billers. Register today for this emergency audio conference scheduled
to help you prepare for the January 1st rule change.
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CMS Eliminates Payment for Consults
US $237.00
Participants will learn:
How CPT and CMS rules will differ in 2010
How to interpret the new CPT explanations about consults for commercial payers
Why other payers may follow CMSs lead and how to monitor this
What policies to develop for Medicare and commercial payers
What
codes to use for office and hospital services provided at the request
of another clinician, for Medicare and non-Medicare patients
Why specialty designation is critical
How to bill for telehealth consults: the only consults left as far as Medicare is concerned
Why this is a boon for hospitalists and primary care
How the rule effects your specialty
This audio conference will clarify how the rule change will
change how to bill for hospital services, Non-Physician Practitioners
and specialists. Practices need to understand the hard choices for
billing Medicare patients with secondary insurance policies that may or
may not follow Medicare rules, and what to do when Medicare is the
Secondary Payer.
Meet Our Expert Speaker:
Betsy Nicoletti is the co-founder of
Codapedia.com, a website which is dedicated to providing
user-generated, free reimbursement information for physician
practices. She is also the author of the Physician Auditing Workbook,
published by DecisionHealth and The Field Guide to Physician Coding
published by Greenbranch Publishing.
