Physicians who treat Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) patients should be
mindful of new changes to billing practices required by the 2010 Physician
Fee Schedule [PDF]. The final rule's elimination of consultation codes, and
the resulting conflict between coding rules for Medicare and other payers,
means that physicians will have to bill using two different billing codes for
Medicare and non-Medicare payers. Physicians who treat MSP patients in a
hospital setting will be especially impacted by the change, as a single episode
of treatment for an MSP patient now requires the physician to bill multiple
payers using two different billing codes. Mark A. Stanley of Ober|Kaler discusses the issue.
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