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Coding Strategies:

Master These Strategies and Ace Billing for Subsequent Admissions

Published on Fri Aug 16, 2013

Discharge and readmission can be reported twice. If you’re not clear on the changes in CPT® verbiage preceding the inpatient neonatal critical care code 99468, particularly when it comes to readmissions, you could be reducing your reporting accuracy. The issue at hand: Introductory notes in CPT® 2013 before the Inpatient Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care range (99468-99476) state that 99468 (Initial inpatient [...]
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