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Stop Missing Out on Reimbursement in the Event of Patient's Demise

Published on Fri Jun 12, 2015

Discharge codes are appropriate, CMS advises. Is your hard work written off along with the unfortunate demise of a patient? Medicare has no code for pronouncing a patient dead, but you still deserve to get paid for your services. Work-around: Although you may not want to use discharge codes 99238 (Hospital discharge day management; 30 minutes or less) and 99239 [...]
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