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Looking for an Admit Code? Think Again

Published on Wed Dec 23, 2020

Question: Our provider often does rounds at the hospital and the other day, he admitted a patient and asked me to report the admit code. I can’t find it anywhere. Can you help? Georgia Subscriber Answer: The admitting physician should report a code from the 99221-99223 (Initial hospital care, per day, for the evaluation and management of a patient …) [...]
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