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99468: Know How to Bill for Subsequent Admissions

Published on Tue Jan 08, 2013

Discharge and readmission? You can report twice. When CPT® makes adjustments, the reason is normally to clear up confusion and outline the details about coding policy. However those adjustments sometimes result in more head-scratching. This has been the case with changes in verbiage preceding the inpatient neonatal critical care code 99468, particularly when it comes to readmissions. The issue at [...]
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