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Re: US docs only. Telephone consults From: Rafael Haciski MD (haciski@earthlink.net) Mon Feb 26 00:09:05 2001 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Rafael Haciski MD: "Re: US docs only. Telephone consults" Previous message: Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: who knows about squitting delivery?" In reply to: Garry Siegel: "Re: US docs only. Telephone consults" Can't do that - it's fraud. We'll come visit you in the pen. :) I believe that the E&M coding requires a face-to-face visit/interaction, and phone just does not meet that requirement. "Consultation" requires that the patient be referred to you by another practitioner, and in follow-up you need to send a report to that person. Just because the patient wanted to talk does not make it a "consultation." -- Rafael Haciski, MD FACOG Gynecology & Infertility Assoc. Baltimore MD http://www.ivf-md.com > From: garrys@mindspring.com (Garry Siegel) > Reply-To: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net > Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:05:37 -0600 > To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@mail.medispecialty.com> > Subject: Re: US docs only. Telephone consults > > Doug: > > I believe that you can use an E/M code for an office visit in which you > just talk and don't do a physical exam. I don't have a CPT book handy, > but what my staff would call a "consult"--like a woman coming in to talk > about menopause, or infertility--isn't a consult in the CPT sense. I > believe it is an E/M visit billed by time, since the physical exam > component is not done. > > Why would this occur? How about the woman who comes in for an annual, > and by the way, I've not gotten pregnant for two years. It is perfectly > reasonable for her to come back at another time to discuss this, and for > you to bill for the service rendered (I'm ignoring whether infertility > is covered by her carrier in this example). > > If others have a different take, or if I'm wrong, please say so. > > Garry > > -- > Garry E. Siegel, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. > Roswell, GA > Private Practice > Next message: Rafael Haciski MD: "Re: US docs only. Telephone consults" Previous message: Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: who knows about squitting delivery?" In reply to: Garry Siegel: "Re: US docs only. Telephone consults"

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