From 2010, Medicare stopped paying for all consultation codes from the CPT evaluation and management, except for telehealth consultation G-codes.
As of the first of the year 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) stopped providing coverage for consultation codes. It is difficult enough to comprehend the coding policy; but, today there is a mix of the coverage policy and the coding policy, and one is required to differentiate between the two.
CMS has removed funding for consultation codes and transferred their relative value units (RVUs) to other assessment and management codes. CMS has said that it does not feel there is much effort involved in the consultation codes beyond the routine evaluation and management activities related to report writing.
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