Reader Questions:
Understand Neonate-Specific Coding Conventions
Published on Wed Feb 21, 2024
Question: Our hospital physician provided a neonate with critical care throughout the first 28 days of life, and we billed the subsequent visits with the neonate code. But, when the patient is 29 days old and receives critical care, do I bill that as an initial visit because it’s a new code set, or do I bill as a subsequent [...]