Davieda Skobel
Networker
We are having problems with billing for patients that are in observation for longer than 8 hours but not beyond 23 hours.We(the physician) are billing as outpatient and the hospital is billing as inpatient.The E/M guidelines are not really clear as to which is correct.If we bill inpatient we get denials for no precert for admit.Which is correct,inpatient or outpatient.We are billing 99235.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Thanks in advance for any help.