AMA CPT® Assistant - 2006 Issue 5 (May)

Evaluation and Management Services: Follow-up Consultations (May 2006)

May 2006 page 16 Evaluation & Management Services: Follow-up Consultations, 99241 (Q&A) Question What is the appropriate code series to report from for a follow-up consultation performed in the office, hospital, or nursing home settings? AMA Comment As was true for CPT 2005, office or other outpatient consultations should still be reported from the 99241-99245 code series if a physician whose opinion or advice regarding evaluation and/or management of a specific problem is being requested by another physician (no change for CPT 2006 regarding outpatient consultation). However, since the follow-up inpatient consultation codes have been deleted for CPT...

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