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I am new to hospitalist/newborn coding. I have a combined progress note/discharge summary. The hospitalist put up 99462 and 99238 for the same DOS. Is this okay to bill this way? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
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I am new to hospitalist/newborn coding. I have a combined progress note/discharge summary. The hospitalist put up 99462 and 99238 for the same DOS. Is this okay to bill this way? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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No it is not. Per the CPT Assistant "The hospital discharge day codes 99238 and 99239 include all the E/M services performed on the day of discharge. Therefore, it is not appropriate to separately report a subsequent hospital care code (99231-99233) if a hospital care discharge service (99238 or 99239) is performed on the same day." This logic would apply to newborn care on the same date of service.
 
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