If you bill consults to private payers, good luck collecting the balance from Medicare secondary payers. Don’t even think about billing a consult to Medicare — even if it’s only a secondary payer claim. Medicare may have scratched consultations off of its list of payable services, but many other insurers did not follow suit. This leaves you in [...] Related articles:

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