See Our Revised Coding for Consultation Services in the Clinical Payment and Coding Policy for Evaluation and Management CPCP024

May 31, 2024

What’s changing?
Effective Sept. 1, 2024, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico is updating its Clinical Payment and Coding Policy, Evaluation and Management Coding CPCP024.

The Details
Under this revised policy BCBSNM will no longer reimburse for outpatient or inpatient consultation using Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) codes 99242 - 99245 and 99252 - 99255. Consultation services should be reported with an appropriate office outpatient or inpatient evaluation and management code representing the location where the visit occurred and the level of complexity of the visit performed.

What do I need to do?
Review in detail the revised policy – Evaluation and Management Coding CPCP024.

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