Newborn Status Change Means Deciding Between Hospital Care Codes

Sort your normal, sick and intensive care options.
Choosing the appropriate codes for initial newborn services can be difficult due to the large number of available codes and gray areas between the spectrum of illnesses. If you find yourself getting tripped up by the multiple categories, read on for expert tips and real-world examples that […]

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AMA Chimes In On How to Report Consults for Non-Medicare Patients

Beware: Don’t use the CMS consult crosswalk for billing purposes.
You may be seeing light at the end of the tunnel. The AMA just published an article to clarify the use of the consultation codes for non-Medicare patients, and talks about their efforts to get CMS to delay their new policy. You can find the article […]

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