tobeornottobeacoder
Networker
I am not familiar with hospital billing at all and this will be a stupid question. If a patient is being discharged from an inpatient stay and all the issues on what they were admitted for have been resolved, what do you put for a dx on the discharge?? Are the dx still the same as the admitting dx because there is a potential that problems will come back??? I have looked in the guidelines in my ICD9 and all I can find is outpatient. Can someone help me and tell me where I can find this information????