Can Condition Code 44 be used if the patient has been in the hospital more than 48 hours?
Condition code 44 is used to change the status from inpatient to outpatient. The entire episode of care should be treated as though the inpatient admission never occurred and should be billed as an outpatient episode of care. 5. Can the hospital change an admission order or correct it after discharge? For example, physician ordered Admit to telemetry but it should have been an observation order. No. Orders may only be changed/corrected before the patient is discharged from the hospital and before the claim is submitted. 6. If the Emergency Room physician orders observation status and the next day the attending physician sees the patient and determines that the patient should have been admitted, what is the admission date? The admission date is the date the attending physician orders inpatient admission. This order cannot be backdated.
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