Ebernhardt
New
Recently, Medicare has denied some infusion, injection, and hydration charges on our observation claims due to not having an initial service billed for each date of service on the claim. Our HIM Dept is stumped because we have always followed the coding guidelines that only 1 initial service can be reported PER ENCOUNTER rather than PER DOS. Is anyone else experiencing a similar issue or can anyone provide an update to the coding guidelines that we may have missed?
Thanks!
Thanks!