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Nov 9th, 2010 - afzal.zee 19
Consultation for Nursing Home visit
Is there any consultation code for nursing home visit? If any, please suggest. Thank you!
Nov 9th, 2010 -
use
same codes as outpatient but with place of service as SNF
Nov 11th, 2010 - Codapedia Editor 1,399
Consultation in nursing facility
For Medicare, physicians should use the initial nursing facility codes with no modifier for "consults" NPPs can't use these codes. (99304-99306)
For commercial payers in a nursing home, use inpatient consult codes. (99251--99255)