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Wiki 99238/99239 Hospital discharge day mgmt

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Rufus186

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Can you bill 99238/99239 during the post operative period of a surgery charge by the same physician or same group practice?

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No - if the discharging physician is the surgeon and it is within the global period, the physician or group cannot bill for the discharge.
 
Tonyj said:
Wouldn't/shouldn't the discharge note be from the admitting physician/group?
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Tonyj - A surgeon can be the admitting doctor too. For example if a patient comes to the office or ER for a ruptured appendicitis, he may admit the patient because they will need to stay after surgery. Since he is the admitting doctor, he would be responsible for discharging the patient, but because the patient is now in the global period for the surgery, he cannot bill for the discharge summary.

If, for example, the hospitalist group was the one that admitted the patient, then it wouldn't matter about the global for the surgery, because they would be the ones billing for the discharge, not the surgeon. The global would only apply to any services that the performing surgeon would provide.
 
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