tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2013 Issue 12

CPT® 2014: 99446-99449: New E/M Codes Capture Doc Discussions

Make sure to include a written report. Who knows if Medicare will pay, but you should be able to bill some payers for your general surgeon’s interprofessional consultation services beginning Jan. 1, 2014. That’s because CPT® 2014 introduces four new codes that describe the work of two medical professionals who discuss a patient’s condition via phone or internet, as follows: 99446 — Interprofessional telephone/Internet assessment and management service provided by a consultative physician including a verbal and written report to the patient’s treating/requesting physician or other qualified health care professional; 5-10 minutes of medical consultative...

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