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    Wiki Hospitalist and General Surgeon Visit on same day

    Good Morning, Our General Surgery group recently became hospital employees and since they transitioned to the hospital Tax ID we have had issues with visits denying when a hospitalist sees the patient on the same day as our provider. Is there a way to get our charge paid or would these visits...
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    Wiki OB Hospitalist Billing Question

    We have group of eight providers, who have an agreement with a laborist group at the hospital. We pay the laborist group a fixed amount to deliver our babies if one of our eight physicians cannot make the delivery. Due to the agreement, are we allowed to bill the global OB care under our doctor...
    • cnieto2000
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    • global billing hospitalist
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: OB/GYN
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    Wiki Telemedicine in Hospital Setting

    Anyone performing telemedicine visits as the role of a hospitalist? I'm looking for very specific info....we would like to contract with a hospital and have them pay us a flat rate for our services (diabetes management). The issue is how does the hospital itself get reimbursed for the services...
    • beccamcd7
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    • hospital rounding billing hospitalist inpatient ms-drg telehealth telemedicine
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Billing/Reimbursement
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    Wiki OPIB during Global Surgical Period

    Hi, friends! Question for all of you Global Surgical Period experts *****Background***** Patient is OPIB (outpatient in bed or bedded outpatient status) who is neither inpatient nor observation but is occupying a bed in the hospital.... *****Scenario 1***** Patient just had surgery and I, as...
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    Wiki HPI Copy and Paste

    I have a Hospitalist that copies the ER provider's HPI and pastes it into their note with "Per ER MD:" as the title. Is this allowed? My gut tells me no, but I have searched all over to find a guideline that specifically states that the provider must document in their own words, but have been...
    • DavitaBrannon03
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    • copy & paste e/m leveling hospitalist hpi
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: E/M
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    Wiki new to billing inpatient claims for behavioral health hospitalists

    Dear colleagues: Hospitalist on rounds to see non-MCR patient for first time is called back later in the day for another different issue for the same patient. Initially, the first time the patient was seen was recorded as new patient, and 2nd time on this same day, doctor entered "established...
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    Wiki Split/Shared IP/OP Hospital Consults

    When a PA Hospitalist performs a IP/OP consult in the hospital without the MD present. Does the MD Hospitalist have to have a face-to -face visit with the patient and also document elements of the visit in addendum to the PA's consult note that they performed personally? -or- Can the MD just...
    • Ethanzoe
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    • consult hospitalist note pas visit
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: E/M
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    Wiki Hospitalist OP ICD10-CM assignment question

    I am doing the billing (99221-99239) for our hospitalist that see our patients in the hospital and am unclear when deciding the ICD-10CM codes to use... if the patient's admitting diagnosis are different than the subsequent visit diagnosis and different than the discharge diagnosis, how do I...
    • jsmooney6219
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    • admitting codes diagnosis hospitalist patients
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: ICD-10
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    Wiki When should i be using modifier AI for hospital based coding?

    From my understanding you append a Modifier AI if the physician billing for the charges is the same physician that admitted the patient. Can someone please elaborate on this for me. and provide examples if possible. That would really help me put it into perspective.
    • Ajones2015
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    • admitting physician hospital hospitalist modifier ai physician
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Modifiers
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    Wiki Hospitalist delivery. Can I bill for my OB provider

    Any help anyone could provide would be helpful. Patient arrived at hospital in labor, her OB doctor was called, but it was a precipitous delivery done by the hospitalist. Her provider arrived one minute after the delivery and assumed care (was her OB throughout the pregnancy as well). The...
    • debellis59
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    • arrived delivery hospital hospitalist provider
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: OB/GYN
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    Wiki Discharge and Readmit on same DOS

    I have a patient that was discharges from OBVS and came back into ER an hour later admitted to OBVS again. Dr. 1 discharged, Dr. 2 readmitted both from same hospitalist group. Can I bill the discharge and admit on same day with a modifier? or how would that work? Thank you.
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    Wiki PQRS for Hospitalists

    Does anyone have any input on how to meet PQRS guidelines for hospitalists? We deal with the patients that are admitted as inpatient or observation only so we never really have follow ups after they are discharged - I know some hospitals take care of it from them but we are considered a separate...
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    Wiki Hospitalist Admit/Discharge Elective Surgical Pt

    Currently I work for a hospitalist group. this group has started to admit to inpatient and discharge Elective Surgical patients. our questions are; can they admit and discharge an elective surgical pt, what about the global period, what about the dx - shouldn't the dx be for comorbidities...
    • tdsmitchell
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    • elective surgery hospitalist
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: E/M
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