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11/05/2009

Your practice must stop billing consult codes on Medicare claims starting Jan. 1. Instead, you'll use the appropriate inpatient or outpatient visit codes. The codes affected are outpatient codes 99241-99245 and inpatient codes 99251-99255.

11/05/2009

You're just seven weeks away from a 2010 conversion factor (CF) that's a shocking $7.66 less than the 2009 CF, unless Congress steps in with a pay fix, according to the final 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS; see Part B News Special Report). The conversion factor is slated to drop to $28.4061 from $36.0666 on Jan. 1, though experts and Washington insiders believe a pay-fix is inevitable (PBN 11/2/09).

11/05/2009

There are lots of little details contained in the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) that you need to know about to be prepared to bill correctly and project your reimbursements for 2010.

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