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Consolidate Your Inpatient Consult Coding With These 5 Tips

You can bill initial visits again on re-admission of a discharged patient. When your pulmonologist provides a consultation in a hospital setting, including emergency situations or has a role in admitting a patient for hospital treatment, you could be forfeiting pay for those services if you’re unaware of the following coding advice. 1. Site of Service Decides Patient Status Make [...]
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