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Get Back to the Basics on Hospital Coding

Published on Thu Feb 03, 2022

Inpatients staying more than 1 day have different codes. When your orthopedist performs hospital care, coding isn’t always so cut and dried. Why? There are four different groups of hospital care codes; some you’ll use on their own, others you’ll need to use in combination depending on encounter specifics. You also need to keep up you count of components (history, [...]
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