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When a physician group of hospitalists employed by the same employer are attending a patient who is in the hospital as inpatient, is it correct to submit the entire claim under the Admitting physician? Or, is the claim supposed to be split and billed separately according to each attending physician day for day? Is there any legal documentation to support the correct way to bill under these circumstances? I know that we have to bill as if there is only ONE admitting physician because the physicians are of the same specialty and part of the same group but as for Day to Day billing I am uncertain on whether to bill each daily procedure under the Admitting physician all together or to bill according to the attending physician per day. Our physicians are on schedules so any length of stay past 5 days will have multiple physicians attending the same patient. We have about 25 physicians and 12 hospitals to cover so the scheduling changes quite often.