Inpatient Coding:
You Can Recoup Pay for Death Pronouncements
Published on Thu Feb 14, 2013
Key: Enter correct date and place of service. There’s no need to write off your physician’s services when he pronounces a patient dead. Medicare may not have a code for actually declaring a patient’s death, but the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) offers guidance on what you should put on your claim. Although many doctors bristle at using [...]