In rare twist, long beats short in discharge day management codes
Currently, CERT auditors may be looking into your use of 99238 (Hospital discharge day management; 30 minutes or less) and 99239 ( … ; more than 30 minutes). If so, it may have to do with their unusual usage pattern relative to other pairs of time-based codes, in which the longer-duration, higher-price 99239 has increased in use while the shorter-duration, lower-price 99238 has declined.
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