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A patient that my physician was treating in the hospital has died. He was not there when the patient expired, did not pronounce him deceased. There was another physician that did that. We do not bill for the facility, my physician does his own billing. But my physician is billing a 99232, with just a brief summary of the patients care days before the patient passed away. Can he code this? I have not been in this situation before.
Many thanks,
A patient that my physician was treating in the hospital has died. He was not there when the patient expired, did not pronounce him deceased. There was another physician that did that. We do not bill for the facility, my physician does his own billing. But my physician is billing a 99232, with just a brief summary of the patients care days before the patient passed away. Can he code this? I have not been in this situation before.
Many thanks,
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