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Subsequent Hospital Inpatient or Observation Care CPT® Code range 99231- 99233

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code range for Hospital Inpatient and Observation Care Services 99231-99233 is a medical code set maintained by the American Medical Association.

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CPT® Code Range 99231- 99233
Section 99231-99233
Subsequent Hospital Inpatient or Observation Care
99231
99232
99233
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Initial Hospital Care codes and Admission to Hospital dates?
If you did an inpatient consult, but the carrier does not accept consult codes, the Medicare guideline specify you may use initial inpatient 99221-99223. They also state if you do not meet 99221 (sinc... [ Read More ]
Chief complaint documentation
[QUOTE="stacymac51488, post: 514411, member: 303279"] Thank you for your reply. Another thing that is being said by the education and compliance department is that the CC will come from the H&P or the... [ Read More ]
Chief complaint documentation
[QUOTE="thomas7331, post: 514408, member: 5404"] The CC is required, however it doesn't have to be labeled specifically as a 'chief complaint' in the note and doesn't even have to be an actual 'compla... [ Read More ]
Inpatient Substance Abuse
[QUOTE="TThivierge, post: 513315, member: 216725"] Hi Laylaykali, It seems you are doing this correctly with CPT 90791 and inpt psych codes 99231 -99233, but no idea of HCPCS to use in that setting. U... [ Read More ]
Inpatient Substance Abuse
Hi Laylaykali, It seems you are doing this correctly with CPT 90791 and inpt psych codes 99231 -99233, but no idea of HCPCS to use in that setting. Understand MD, PA, DO psychiatrist and psychologist ... [ Read More ]
Inpatient Substance Abuse
I was just hired on as a CPC for an Inpatient Substance abuse treatment facility with locations in 4 different states. They also do outpatient treatment for adolescents. I'm trying to code for they're... [ Read More ]
Diagnosis not documented on DOS diagnosis initial encounter inpatient m62.82 n17.9 subsequent care
We are doing profee billing for hospital care services. [LIST] [*]For the initial hospital care (99221-99223) visit documentation states that patient came into the hospital and was found to have an ... [ Read More ]
Inpatient E & M
[QUOTE="csperoni, post: 510908, member: 164618"] Actually, if you did a consult, but the carrier does not accept consult codes, the Medicare guideline state you may use initial inpatient 99221-99223. ... [ Read More ]
Subsequent Hospital Care in a RPTC
The CPT codes 99231-99233 have certain requirements you must meet or time, but when auditing a provider who saw 17 patients in one day can you use time as a measure of whether the service could have b... [ Read More ]
Modifier for 99253 with 2 consults from 2 different specialists
Anthem BC of CA is denying Inpt consultation code 99253. The denial stated "We covered this care as part of another service". I called the customer service dept for Calpers, the representative told ... [ Read More ]
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