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tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 14
CONSULTS: You Don't Need A Written Request To Prove A Consult
But CMS withdraws its article on the subject, to providers' confusionLast September's transmittal on incident-to billing wasn't the only thing that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services withdrew without any explanation.CMS issued a new Medlearn Matters article about consults in which the agency said definitively that you don't need a letter from the requesting physician to prove a visit was a consult. Instead, CMS said, you just needed a note in the patient's medical record.But now CMS has removed Medlearn Matters article SE-0515 from its Web site and told the carriers to take it back. On...
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