Archive for The Day of July 25th, 2007
Archive for the Day of July 25th, 2007
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of July 25th, 2007.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during July 25th, 2007.
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With Code 21 – It’s Location, Location, Location!
As you know in processing medical billing for hospital based claims, location of services is everything and you must be certain that the correct place of service coding is used. That is where code 21 comes in handy. Place of service code 21 is used in medical billing for all inpatient hospital care. Code 23 is a lesser used code, but also useful. Admittance of a patient to the hospital will make it necessary to use the inpatient hospital POS code 21. Many medical billers get confused when the emergency department comes into play. They question whether or not they should use place of service code 23 for emergency room-hospital, …
