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This pertains to a surgeon who is a consulting physician (i.e., not the admitting physician), who is asked to see a patient in the ED, who is then admitted by the hospital ED doctor. The surgeon then sees the patient as an inpatient on two subsequent days. Here is the scenario:
Surgeon sees patient on 4/1/21 in the ED who gets admitted to inpatient care on the same day, and then the same surgeon sees the same patient on 4/2 and 4/3 as an inpatient.
Which of the 2 following strategies would you use to code the visits:
Thank you very much.
Surgeon sees patient on 4/1/21 in the ED who gets admitted to inpatient care on the same day, and then the same surgeon sees the same patient on 4/2 and 4/3 as an inpatient.
Which of the 2 following strategies would you use to code the visits:
- Strategy #1: Code the 4/1 visit with an ED code (99281-99285; using POS 23), then code the 4/2 visit as an inpatient consultation (99251-99255; using POS 21) and the 4/3 visit as subsequent inpatient visit (99231-99233; using POS 21), or
- Strategy # 2: Code 4/1 with an inpatient consultation code or an initial hospital care code (99221-99223) (using POS 21) , then code 4/2 and 4/3 a subsequent inpatient visits (using POS 21).
Thank you very much.
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