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Oncology & Hematology Coding Alert

You Be the Coder:

Is Time on Your Side?

Published on Mon Apr 24, 2017

Question: Our oncologist discharged a patient from the hospital. He told us he spent at least an hour during the discharge, but we don’t have any time at all listed in the record. What should we do? Codify Subscriber Answer: When your physician performs hospital discharge services, you have two codes as options, as follows: 99238 — Hospital discharge day management; 30 [...]
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