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Wiki Inpatient hospital admit

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Start date Aug 28, 2012

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Aug 28, 2012

If a patient is admitted into the hospital via the ER before midnight and the primary care physician does not make it to the hospital until the next morning to see the patient and complete admitting H&P, is the doctor allowed to bill procedure code 99221-99223?

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