CPT^® 99234, Under Hospital Inpatient or Observation Care Services (Including Admission and Discharge Services)

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 99234 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Hospital Inpatient or Observation Care Services (Including Admission and Discharge Services).

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The provider sees a patient for hospital inpatient or observation care involving evaluation and management (E/M), with an admission encounter and discharge encounter on the same date. The E/M involves a straightforward or low level of medical decision making or the provider spends at least 45 minutes of total time on the service on a single date.

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Practice test question

Yes, you are missing that 99234-99236 currently requires ALL 3 of the components to code that level. Therefore, because your history is detailed, anything higher than 99234 requires a comprehensive h... [ Read More ]

Practice test question practice question test

On practice test number 3 question 17. Part of the question says "Detailed History, Comprehensive Exam, High MDM" I keep getting it wrong because the rationale says that code 99234 is high decision ma... [ Read More ]

Observation coding

Thank you, I understand that part, my question is if admitted by my Provider for Observation on the 17th. We did not see patient on the 17th. My Provider saw patient on the 18th did an H&P and then ... [ Read More ]

hospital billing confusion

I have a patient that we admitted for observation on 5/17 but we didn't actually see patient until 5/18 and then is discharged on 5/18. Would this be billed as 99234/35 or would you need to use new... [ Read More ]

Observation for Medicaid/Medicare

Looking for clarification on the below scenario. Pt seen for Observation between 8 hrs. but less than 24 hrs. I know on [B]same date[/B] of service we would use 99234-99236 codes. How would you code... [ Read More ]

Attestation for resident for observation note

Patient was admitted to observation by the resident on 4/4 at 6 p.m. and documents a detailed history, comprehensive exam and moderate MDM. The attending adds this attestation: "I have reviewed the ... [ Read More ]

Observation with patient seen by resident only on day of admission

A patient was admitted to observation in the evening of Jan 10 by a resident and was not seen by the attending physician until late morning on Jan 11 and was discharged on 1/11. There is one note for... [ Read More ]

admission and discharge on the same day?

Is there specific guidelines for how many hours a patient has to be in observation to use the codes 99234, 99235 or 99236? At one time Medicare specifically stated it had to be a minimum of 8 hours to... [ Read More ]

Aetna E&M Policy

[QUOTE="coop22, post: 453539, member: 227098"] No we are a cardiac surgeons office. We are being denied off other offices under diff NPI's and Diff specialties. To us these are NEW patients. Their ne... [ Read More ]

Hospital Discharge with no exam

Hospital Discharge Day Management (99238-99239) is a face to face service. Here is Medicare info: [URL='https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiMyOLKsMLxAhX1IjQIHa... [ Read More ]

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