tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 41
Part B Coading Coach: 4 Tips Clear Your Confusion About Hospital Transfer Coding
If you're stumped by physician transfers, you're not aloneWhen a physician transfers a patient from one hospital to another, you need to select the right codes based on accepted coding guidelines - and the selection process can be harder than you think.The Government Accountability Office (GAO) asked Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services call centers how to code a physician transferring a patient and found that 96 percent of the time, the CMS call centers' answers were inaccurate, only partially correct, or incomplete. However, even the GAO's correct responses leave coders with something to be desired. Know the...
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