Wiki POS - Please advise

[Partha]

Patient admitted (inpatient) on 07/01/2009 & discharged 07/07/2009. An EEG is performed on 07/07/2009, and the interpretation is performed on 07/08/2009. What about the POS, inpatient or outpatient for billing the interpretation?

 

[LLovett]

You would bill for what was done.

If your provider read it on 7/8/09 in his office and dictated the report from there that is what you would bill. 7/8/09 pos 11.

Your documentation has to support what you did.

Your documentation will not support 7/7/09 pos 21 if it didn't happen then and there.

Laura, CPC, CEMC

 

[Partha]

The provider read it in the hospital, so will it be outpatient or inpatient?
Does the same apply to radiology readings?

Thanks!