AMA CPT® Assistant - 2012 Issue 7 (July)

THEN and NOW: Subsequent Hospital Observation & Discharge Care Services (July 2012)

July 2012 pages 10-11 THEN and NOW: Subsequent Hospital Observation & Discharge Care Services The spring 1993, April 1996, January 2006, and September 2006 editions of CPT Assistant discussed the reporting of Hospital Observation Services admission, subsequent care, and discharge performed on more than one calendar date. Code revisions and additions have changed in this subsection since the 1993 and 2006 articles cited the following: The unlisted Evaluation and Management (E/M) service code 99499 was reported when observation services were extended beyond the initial observation encounter. Discharge of the observation status patient was reported using the hospital discharge service...

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