Two commercial payers will stop reimbursing E & M consultation codes

Two commercial payers have announced that they will stop reimbursing E/M services consultation codes CPT 99241-99255. UnitedHealth announced in its newsletter March 2019, that it would match Medicare’s policy to stop recognizing and paying for consultations. “Effective with dates of service of June 1, 2019, UnitedHealthcare will no longer reimburse CPT codes 99241-99255 when billed …