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But if we use POS 22, which denotes an outpatient service, the carrier tells us that we didn’t request preauthorization for the inpatient. If we use POS 21, which denotes an inpatient service, the carrier tells us that the patient was not an admitted inpatient. We continue to have problems with documenting the “place of service” for observation service codes 99234-99236. In that case, you would bill for two separate, identifiable services “and affix a -25 modifier to the first service. The exception is when a patient becomes critical and a hospitalist returns to the floor and/or bedside to render critical care for more than 30 minutes. According to the CMS manual, you should combine the history, exam and medical decision-making of both physicians and bill one level of service for the group on any given date. How do I bill if one hospitalist provides a 99223-level admission and then another hospitalist in the same group sees the patient later that same day? Does the second physician simply provide his service for free?Ī.
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Otherwise, you’ll have to use a subsequent visit code (99231-99233) to bill for your service. But if another physician requests a consultation, you should bill a consultation code (99251-99255). If you do the history and physical to admit the patient, then you would use one of the admission codes (99221-99223). Instead, pick a code depending on whether you are acting as the admitting physician or a consultant. There currently is no special CPT code for a preoperative evaluation. As the primary hospitalist for a patient who needs a preoperative evaluation, is there a specific CPT code I should use?Ī. Related resource: 40+ Collected Coding Tips Here are some readers’ questions “with answers “on documentation and coding. Those are just two of the questions I’ve received from readers since the last time I answered questions.