Pop the champagne cork & get ready for brand new inpatient coding rules. With the changes to consult coding in 2010, it will be more important than ever to report hospital visits properly. In the past, only the admitting physician reported initial hospital care codes (99221- 99223), and specialists who saw the patient separately often billed inpatient [...] Related articles:

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