Physician Reimbursement - Palliative Care Consultation

When a patient is receiving services through the Midwest CareCenter Palliative Care Services program ...

• Medicare and many other carriers allow two physicians of like specialty to bill on the same day if they use different diagnoses.

For a palliative care consultation that coincides with the date of the primary attending physician's visit ...

• The attending physician bills the primary disease code.
• The palliative care consultant bills codes related to symptoms.