tci Part B Insider - 2014 Issue 9

Hospital Care: Report Hospital Visits Properly to Avoid Being A CERT Statistic

These 7 quick steps will help you ensure that you bill inpatient visits properly. If CMS’s latest CERT report is any indication, Part B practices could use a quick refresher on how to report initial hospital care and other inpatient visits to avoid paybacks or underpayments (See cover story for more on this). Consider the following tips to ensure that you report these services appropriately. 1. Know who should report initial hospital care” Many coders believe they can bill for initial inpatient care (99221-99223) just because the doctor performed a face-to-face visit with the patient in the hospital...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Part B Insider.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI’s Part B Insider will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4800 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles

This feature is currently unavailable for online purchase. For more information, please call 801-770-4203 or Contact Us.

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.