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Heed This Advice in This TCM Scenario

Published on Thu Feb 18, 2021

Question: One of our patients had a planned laparoscopic surgery in which they were admitted and stayed overnight to make sure everything was fine. My question is this: can we bill for transi­tional care management (TCM) when the surgery is planned? Ohio Subscriber Answer: Whether the surgery was planned or unplanned doesn’t matter in TCM visits. In order to bill [...]
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