tci E/M Coding Alert - 2019 Issue Q3

Specialty Spotlight: Solve These 4 Neonatal Transfer of Care Scenarios, Keep Your Claims Clean

Know the codes to use and who can use them. Care for a child immediately after birth can change hands a number of times, creating plenty of problems for pediatric coders. As if choosing the right code wasn’t enough, coders have to figure out whether the baby’s pediatrician, a neonatologist, or a hospital’s nursery, step-down unit, or neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is responsible for taking care of the infant. To try and help you understand who should be billing, and what should be billed, we’ve put together four different transfer-of-care scenarios to test your...

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