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E/M Coding:

Make Documentation Priority 1 for These Observations

Published on Thu Oct 06, 2016

Expert: When observation stay goes beyond the pale, payer will have questions. Most observation services don’t last more than a day — or two, at the outside. By then, the physician has typically discharged the patient or admitted her to the hospital. In most cases, Medicare feels that the decision to either discharge a patient from observation or admit her [...]
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