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Emergency room vs hospital Ambulatory surgery center

I have a payor who is taking a UB-04 billed with a 270, 450 and 360 and paying it off of an ASC fee schedule.
this is a minor surgical procedure a minor ER visit 99283 surgical 11042. I know according to Texas Medicaid facilities are assigned a HASC number to use when billing as an ASC but I cannot find any other information I do not see that the facilities are billing with anything different then NPI etc….
I do not believe you should take an ED visit and make it ASC.
Can anyone with knowledge of Medicaid help maybe I missed something in the manual that says to apply this way?
thank you

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Examine your dialysis space to ensure room to separate infectious patients

Hemodialysis is one of four areas The Joint Commission (TJC) says it’s increasing focus on during surveys. With this in mind, ensure that your hospital’s hemodialysis patients remain in clear view of staff while undergoing the procedure. In addition, make sure there’s enough space to separate patients with respiratory illnesses, fevers, fecal incontinence, or other infectious conditions.

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Billing Room and Board for Residential Treatment

HCPCS H0019 excludes Room and Board so how do you bill for the Room and Board for LOC 3.3 or 3.5 Long Term Residential Substance Abuse Treatment?

Or is there a different HCPCS code to use that includes Room and Board?

Another pressing question that I need an answer to as soon as possible.

I have spent a large amount of time researching this and can’t find this anywhere.

Thxs.

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Billing facility room charge with 99212

I work in a critical access hospital in a remote area. We have specialists that come out to our facility and see patients through our specialty clinic. Our Ortho doctors will see patients in our area and then will do surgery back at the hospital in the city that they work in. They will then have follow up/post op visits again at our facility. Does anyone know for sure if we can bill for the room charge only? We do not handle the pro fees for the doctors and we know the post ops are included with the procedure. We typically bill a 99212 on a UB for the room only for a typical visit but are not sure if we can even do that on a post op visit.

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Emergency room reduction with moderate sedation

Both of the doctors are emergency room doctors with different NPI’s but the same Tax ID number.
Dr. Blue sees Oliver age 25 and decides a need for a reduction to his left arm, he does the moderate sedation of 25 minutes, while Dr. White does the reduction.
Which moderate sedation code would Dr. Blue bill?
99152-sedation provided by the physician performing the reduction
99156-sedation provided by a physician not performing the reduction.
Basically is this cpt code based off of the NPI or Tax ID.

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Emergency room visits (more than 1 visit within 24 hours)

Hello fellow Coders,

If a Patient makes more than one visit per day to the Emergency Dept. (e.g. 2, 3, 4 ED encounters within 24 hours); in what instances would more than one encounter be paid? Are there any guidelines available in reference to such?

Thank you in advance.

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Emergency Room Facility E/M required documentation

Some of our ED physicians are just documenting an HPI, ROS, PE, Med, PFShx, and final diagnosis in their notes. The ancillary information flows into the EMR, but they do not document any further information as to the patient’s treatment, care or outcome of the visit, no Progress note or MDM. For the Facility coding, is this enough information? I feel there needs to be a full story of the patient’s visit in their note. If patient is transferred to another facility, there is no mention of that in the note. The physicians feel we can find that somewhere else in the EMR. Any help is appreciated, we just started coding for this group and are struggling. TIA.

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Shared room

Is anyone going that would like to share the cost of the room ? This will be my first one and didn’t really want to pay 212.00 a night for the room that I will only sleep in.

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I would like to register ASAP. Didn’t realize I had to have a name to choose shared room

Dorthi

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