If a patient gets placed in obs. or admitted and discharged in the same day, the CPT 2010 says to use codes 99234-99236. I was told in the past that if the total stay time was less than 8 hours, I had to use simply the admit (99221-99223) or Obs. (99218-99220) codes. I don't see that listed. Is it (was is ever) still true? Thanks.