Abstract
Guidelines for reporting hospital inpatient and observation stays are changed to align with Medicare policy that differentiates code selection based on the length (number of hours) of the patient’s stay for services provided on or after January 1, 2024. The times of admission and discharge guide code selection. This article reviews the revised Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) guidelines, including the following: Continuous hospital visit spanning calendar dates Same-date admission and discharge services Stays of less than 8 hours’ duration spanning 2 dates Examples of code selection for brief hospital stays
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