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Separate Hospital Stay -- 99468 or 99469?

Published on Tue Jan 21, 2014

Question: Our pediatrician admits a newborn baby with severe respiratory distress and we reported 99468. The baby is discharged six days later, but the physician has to admit the baby two weeks after (at 22 days old), critically ill with neonatal sepsis. This by definition does not fit within the criteria of “per hospital stay,” as this is a different [...]
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