You Be the Coder:
Modify Your Understanding of Initial Hospital Care Codes
Published on Mon Apr 22, 2019
Question: Can you use inpatient initial care codes 99221-99223 more than once in the same day if a different physician sees the patient? Texas Subscriber Answer: You can report a code from the 99221-99223 range (Initial hospital care, per day, for the evaluation and management of a patient, which requires these 3 key components …) range only once per day [...]