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You Can’t Always Report ED Codes

Published on Tue Jun 22, 2021

Question: Thanks for your article last month on inpatient coding. I have a follow-up question: If we see a Medicare patient in the emergency department (ED) and then admit that patient to the hospital, can we report both an ED code and an inpatient code? Alabama Subscriber Answer: No, in this situation, you will include everything the gastroenterologist did on [...]
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