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Reader Question:

Take Time To Add These Multi-Provider Minutes

Question: One of our providers spent 40 minutes treating a critically ill adult patient in a local hospital before returning to the practice. Later that same day, another, different provider from our practice treated the same critically ill patient for 50 minutes. Both providers practice in the same specialty (family practice). What is the correct way to bill for this? [...]
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