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ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert

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Know What Constitutes An 'Inducement"

Published on Fri Jan 05, 2018

Question: We keep hearing that we should be more careful about which cases to bill as observation and which are admissions. This is a difficult call for the doctors. Why all the recent scrutiny? Codify Subscriber Answer: Government and private insurance auditors are becoming ever more interested in the rising costs of hospital admissions, particularly when less expensive options (such [...]
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