tci E/M Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 3

Hospital E/M: Follow These 5 Steps and Become a Pro With Subsequent Hospital Care Coding

Practicing each of these steps may increase your practice’s reimbursement. If you primarily use the lowest level code — 99231 — to report your subsequent hospital care services, you are most likely undercoding and costing your practice money. The care level for most hospital stays changes, which can throw you off even more. Read on and learn how to recognize when you are overusing 99231 (Subsequent hospital care, per day, for the evaluation and management of a patient …), and how to look to the physician’s report to correct the coding. Identify the Problem A red...

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