DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 3 (March)

Subsequent care codes open to all who bill inpatient consults

You can bill subsequent hospital care codes (99231, $30.09 and 99232, $54.22) when the services you provide that would have previously been billed as inpatient consults don't meet criteria for use of the lower-level inpatient hospital care code 99221, CMS states in a newly published 12-page document. Your carriers have begun to update their own instructions based on the CMS guidance.

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