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Tick All Time Checks Before Choosing Observation Codes

Published on Tue Sep 08, 2015

Multi-day stays means separate discharge codes. You may encounter many bumps on the road to reporting for your physician’s observations, because different code sets exist for different types of observation services. Keep your calendar, clock, and wits ready at hand before you take up the venture to choose the correct observation code. Further, there might be differences between observation coding [...]
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