Who knew that when the venerable American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) combining two hospital encounter service types into one code set of inpatient/observation services – initial and subsequent – consternation would be the outcome. The confusion: what entity can actually bill an inpatient initial code, 99221-99223, and who must default to subsequent codes or report office and other outpatient codes when seeing patients in the observation setting?
The good news: during the next live edition of the long-running and popular Talk Ten Tuesdays Internet broadcast, Terry Fletcher will return to the broadcast and offer her interpretation of the rules, and how multi-specialty practices will handle these changes. Moreover, Fletcher, a nationally recognized professional coder, educator, and auditor, will report on the contrast between CPT® and Medicare when reporting these services.
The live broadcast will also feature these other segments: