tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2005 Issue 8

Check Your Charts: Observation Coding Do's and Don'ts

 Find flaws before you drop the claim - and keep your reimbursement intact If the details of reporting observation care in the ED send you running from codes 99234-99236, tame your confusion with these helpful hints about exactly what information you need - and don't need - to bill OBS with ease.  Do report observation care wherever the emergency department physician provides it - even if the patient stays in the same bed in the ED. No guidelines require that the patient be in the hospital's designated observation unit for the doctor to render this care.  ...

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