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I'm hoping someone can clarify this issue or point me in the right direction.
When one of my ENT providers is called to the Emergency Department to evaluate and treat a patient who is not admitted to either in-patient or out-patient status, only seen in Place of Service 23, should I be coding this visit with Emergency Department codes (99282-99285) or out patient codes (99202-99205 or 99212-99215)?
 
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If the patient is in Observation Status. then you would code Initial Hospital Services codes.
If the patient is never even admitted as observation status, then you can code Outpatient Codes or Consult Codes as appropriate.
 
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