Lisa Bledsoe
True Blue
Group OB practice of 5 docs. Each has their own patients that they follow thru pregnancy. If Dr. A is the patient's primary OB doc, and Dr. B admits the patient for pyelonephritis during pregnancy, Dr. A still does the billing even though he did not do the admit, f/u visit or documenation for either...he only saw the pt for discharge. It is my opinion that this is not appropriate coding/billing. If these dates were audited, how could they possibly support Dr. A billing when he didn't do any of it? Is this common practice for OB? Anyone else have an opinion?