1. Our AMA will proactively engage and advocate with any commercial insurance company that discontinues payment for consultation codes or that is proposing to or considering eliminating payment for such codes, requesting that the company reconsider the policy change.

2. Where a reason given by an insurance company for policy change to discontinue payment of consultation codes includes purported coding errors or abuses, our AMA will request the company carry out coding education and outreach to physicians on consultation codes rather than discontinue payment for the codes, and call for release of de-identified data from the company related to purported coding issues in order to help facilitate potential education by physician societies.

Policy Timeline

Res. 819, I-17