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I have a question regarding the separate billing of inpatient services. Can an independent audiologist, who is not employed by the hospital, bill separately from the facility for the newborn hearing screenings?
 
Yes, but as outpatient billing.

If you have access to AHA, this was addressed definitively. Newborn Hearing screening are inclusive to the Newborn Period while as inpatient status and not coded and billed inpatient. "The auditory screening is a routine part of the newborn's overall hospital care and would not be coded separately." Since the audiologist performed the screening, the audiologist would have done so as an outpatient while inpatient visit and billed with physician billing.

ICD-10-CM/PCS Coding Clinic, Third Quarter ICD-10 2016 Page:17-audiologist services
ICD-10-CM/PCS Coding Clinic, Third Quarter ICD-10 2016 Page: 17 Effective with discharges:September 23, 2016-audiologist services
ICD-10-CM/PCS Coding Clinic, Third Quarter ICD-10 2016 Page: 18 Effective with discharges: September 23, 2016-pertains to inpatient stay answers your question
 
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