Ob-Gyn Coding Alert

ICD-10:

What to Do When Your Hospital Stay Diagnoses Do Not Stay Static

Establish a policy for waiting six weeks after the patient leaves the hospital. When an ob-gyn patient comes into a hospital for a medical problem, the initial diagnosis may not stay the same the entire time, which means you have to be flexible with how you’ll code these encounters. And if you bill for your physician’s hospital visits with an [...]
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