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Same Day Hospitalization Only Bundled With Same Doc

Published on Mon Mar 23, 2015

Question: My colleague said that if a child is admitted to the hospital on the same day as the patient is seen in our office, we cannot bill for the office visit. I’m not sure about this since our doctors will not see the child in the hospital setting—a doctor from another practice or who is on the hospital staff will [...]
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