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Inpatient Facility Coding & Compliance Alert

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Check This Before Billing Services for 2 Docs for Same Patient on Same Day

Published on Wed May 21, 2014

Question: I have a debate with our biller regarding   how to bill critical care codes when multiple providers are involved. At our larger hospital, we code and bill for the ED physician, the hospitalist and the physicians in critical care unit. My scenario is the following:  The patient arrives in the ED and requires 30 minutes of critical care services [...]
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