AMA CPT® Assistant - 2015 Issue 12 (December)
Bonus Edition: Frequently Asked Questions (Bonus Q&A) (December 2015)
December 2015 page 18 Bonus Edition: Frequently Asked Questions Evaluation and Management: Hospital Inpatient Services Question: What is the appropriate Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code to report, if the physician sees a patient in the observation unit on a given date and the patient is subsequently admitted to the hospital on that date? Answer: When the patient is admitted to the hospital as an inpatient in the course of an encounter in another site of service (eg, hospital emergency department, observation status in a hospital, office, nursing facility) all evaluation and management services provided by that physician in...
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