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5 Tips Help You Ace Your Inpatient Consult Coding

Published on Tue Mar 03, 2015

You can bill initial visits again on re-admission of a discharged patient. When your gastroenterologist provides a consultation in a hospital setting, including accident/emergency situations or has a role in admitting a patient for hospital treatment, you could be forfeiting pay for those services if you’re unaware of the following consult coding advice. 1. Site of Service Decides Patient Status [...]
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