Prevent 99251-99245 denials in 2010 with this checklist. Multiple physicians using the same hospital codes sounds like a recipe for denials, but that’s what Medicare is instructing physician inpatient consultants and care coordinators to do. Whether carriers will kick out these submissions as coordination of care or inpatient admit limiting admit edits is contractor specific, Charles [...] Related articles:

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