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Observation Care:

Heed This Advice for Clean, Compliant Observation Care Claims

Published on Wed Feb 20, 2019

CMS report points finger at insufficient documentation, incorrect coding. If you’ve ever coded 99234-99236 (Observation or inpatient hospital care, for the evaluation and management of a patient including admission and discharge on the same date …), you might want to pay attention to the January 2019 Quarterly Compliance Newsletter: That’s because this latest CMS report has noted some real problems [...]
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