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Can You Report an Initial Hospital Visit for Readmission?

Published on Mon Nov 15, 2021

Question: Our otolaryngologist saw a patient on September 6 in the hospital, and we billed 99222. The patient was discharged from that hospital and readmitted to a different hospital for the same diagnosis later that evening. Our physician saw the patient at the new hospital on September 7. Should we report 99222 for both dates of service since the visits occurred [...]
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