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Can You Code This Critical Care Transition?

Published on Wed Feb 07, 2024

Question: Our hospital physician provided a neonate with critical care throughout the first 28 days of life, and we billed the subsequent visits with the neonate code. But, when the patient is 29 days old and receives critical care, do I bill that as an initial visit because it’s a new code set, or do I bill as a subsequent visit [...]
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