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Follow These 5 Steps and Become a Pro With Subsequent Hospital Care Coding

Published on Fri Feb 14, 2014

Practicing each of these steps may increase your practice’s reimbursement. If you primarily use the lowest level code — 99231 — to report your subsequent hospital care services, you are most likely undercoding and costing your practice money. The care level for most hospital stays changes, which can throw you off even more. Read on and learn how to recognize [...]
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