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Bust These 4 Myths for Perfect Inpatient Care Coding

Published on Thu Jun 24, 2021

Don’t let the 2021 office/outpatient E/M revisions muddy your inpatient thinking. All the changes to the office or other outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) codes have led to plenty of myths about many of the other E/M codes. That includes inpatient codes 99221-99223/99231-99233 (Initial/Subsequent hospital care, per day, for the evaluation and management of a patient …) and 99234-99236 (Observation [...]
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