Archive for January, 2010

Medicare Eliminates Consultation Codes

11 January 2010

CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) announced the elimination of consult codes. Officially released and documented in Change Request “CR 6740″as of January 1, 2010 consult codes will be eliminated from the Medicare fee schedule. Medicare will no longer recognize or pay for services billed with consult codes 99241-99245 or 99251-99255.
CR6470 impacts only [...]