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Inpatient Facility Coding & Compliance Alert

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Heed the POS for Inpatients

Published on Fri Jun 12, 2015

Question: One of our physicians was called and asked to do a consult on an inpatient. This patient was being treated in a rehab facility but was mobile enough to come to our office to be seen. The physician billed a new patient visit of 99203 along with 69210 for removal of impacted cerumen. This was denied by Medicare for “Not [...]
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