jademound
Networker
Patient has been at our facility for 6 weeks for IV medication and acute care of wounds. The patient has an appointment at an outside facility today. Patient will return to our facility this afternoon. How do we handle this? I know that we need to document the leave of absence as the outside facility will need that documented so they can bill for their service but I'm not sure how it should be documented. Does the patient get discharged and readmitted? Do we just note it in the record and make sure billing knows for the occurrence/condition code? If the patient is getting discharged from our facility tomorrow, would that affect how this is handled?