tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 26

Consults: How to Avoid Adding Consult to Injury

The OIG's bark may be worse than its biteBilling for consults may be a mine field, but it's not as bad as you may think. The HHS Office of Inspector General included physician consults in its annual agenda of hot topics for the second year in a row, and many physicians braced for more carrier scrutiny. But in fact, many physicians are, if anything, underbilling for consults, one attorney says. Medicare loosened its rules on consults in 2000, but many physicians continue to follow the old, more restrictive rules, says attorney David Glaser at Fredrickson & Byron...

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