Beware: Don’t use the CMS consult crosswalk for billing purposes. You may be seeing light at the end of the tunnel. The AMA just published an article to clarify the use of the consultation codes for non-Medicare patients, and talks about their efforts to get CMS to delay their new policy. You can find the article [...] Related articles:

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