Report from Consultant to Requesting Physician: Would a \CC:\ to the referring physician at the end of the consultants progress note be sufficient to satisfy consultation requirements?
A CC at the end of the consultants noteis the most minimal approach to providing a report back to the requesting physician. The consultant would be responsiblein this case for clearly documenting insuch a manner that the requesting physician can discern the expert opinion/plan the consultant is providing. We cannot verify that CERT or a Recovery Audit Contractor would accept this. A more direct and clear notation/brief letter would be better and should stand up to review by any and all parties. The cite for the report back to the requestor is from CMS Publication 100-4, the Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Ch 12, sect 30.6.10which says: After the consultation is provided, the consultant shall prepare a written report of his/her findings and recommendations, which shall be provided to the referring physician. The manual does not prescribe a single or specific method of accomplishing this. As the carrier, we would expectto be able to see some notation that an appropriate “report” of so
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