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Nursing Facility Coding:

Understand and Separate "Initial" From "Subsequent" Care When Coding

Published on Thu Jun 12, 2014

Better your chances for a proper reimbursement by having the correct POS. When your physicians and midlevel providers see patients in a nursing facility, determining the code to report isn’t always straightforward. Before you can select a code to report the patient care provided, you have to know what care was provided and by whom.  Coding for initial nursing facility [...]
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