National Government Services - Consultation Code Teleconference


The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced it will discontinue use of the AMA CPT Consultation procedure codes. Consultation services are still a covered service, however, effective January 1, 2010 Medicare contractors (intermediaries, carriers and A/B MACs) will no longer utilize the AMA CPT consultation codes for inpatient facility and office/outpatient settings to report these services. CMS will require providers to utilize CPT Evaluation & Management visit codes where consultation codes were previously billed.

 

National Government Services is offering several teleconferences at no charge to help their providers understand the changes in Medicare coding and payment for consultation services. Medicare providers from all National Government Services jurisdictions should plan on attending one of these important sessions. Each presentation will include a question and answer session.

 

To accommodate your busy schedule NGS is offering the same education at different times on three select dates. Please make sure someone from your practice attends one of the sessions.

 

Preregistration for this session is not required. Select a session you would like to attend and make a note on your calendar. However, since no pre-registration is required there will be no email confirmation sent to you. The educational material used in each of these sessions will be available for download from the Events Calendar tab on the NGS Web site. 

 

http://www.ngsmedicare.com/ADC/EventList.aspx?fromdate=1/1/2010&todate=1/31/2010&display=Month&type=public&eventidn=899&view=EventDetails&information_id=1173

 

Session One: Consultation Code Teleconference

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET

Dial In Number: 866 837-0303

Conference ID # 49138354

 

Session Two: Consultation Code Teleconference

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET

Dial In Number: 866 837-0303

Conference ID # 49139232

 

Session Three: Consultation Code Teleconference

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET

Dial In Number: 866 837-0303

Conference ID # 49139695

 

The attendees will be responsible for obtain the teleconference materials from the NGS web site at:

http://www.ngsmedicare.com/ADC/EventList.aspx?fromdate=1/1/2010&todate=1/31/2010&display=Month&type=public&eventidn=899&view=EventDetails&information_id=1173

 

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