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To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter sblanchard Start date Jan 8, Messages 69 Best answers 0. Walker22 True Blue. A referral is when a doctor sends a patient to you to take over care for a particular problem, or to take over the primary care duties.
A consult is when a doctor sends a patient to a specialist to evaluate that patient and issue a report back to the original doctor outlining a treatment plan. The care of the patient is not transferred. There is more to it than this, but that is the basics. SeriousHistorian Guest. Great way to give a simpler way to remember the difference between Referral and Consult. Both emails helped me, a student, enormously.
Jamesmmm Guest. Messages 53 Best answers 0. PS: Medicare no longer recognizes the consultation codes! It won't be long before the others follow suit! Jamesmmm said:. Click to expand No matter whether it's a referral or a consult, the patient is seen by the doctor and then a charge is billed. I am aware the the referring physician does not bill for referring the patient. That's not the point.
The doctor receiving the patient DOES bill for seeing the patient. The difference is the code used. If it's a consult, then those codes are used unless it's Medicare, of course, but that's a different thread.. I stand by my statement. The doctor sending the patient does not bill a charge this is the referring physician the doctor receiving the patient does bill that is the consulting physician I suppose you'd like to write this off to 'apples and oranges' but it's a point that should be made in any discussion of consults and referrals Can anybody out there corroborate what I have been saying?
Thanks alot. The doctor sending the patient does not bill a charge this is the referring physician the doctor receiving the patient does bill that is the consulting physician.
I suppose you'd like to write this off to 'apples and oranges' but it's a point that should be made in any discussion of consults and referrals. Patient-centred communication. Privacy and confidentiality. Informed consent. Informed discharge.
Team communication.
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