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follow up and admission
If the physician is currently following up on a patient at one hospital (billing for follow up visit) then the patient is transferred and admitted to another hospital by the same physician...all on the same day. Can we bill for the INPT follow up visit and an OBSV admission code for the other hospital all on the same day?
huh?
Inpatient at one hospital then Observation at the next one? Not possible. The hospitals have to share to inpatient DRG - the second hospital should be Inpatient too. As to your question, one visit per day per doc in all settings.
confusing
So, they went from inpatient status to outpatient observation status?