Charge Capture for Nutritional Services
This query is related to CPT codes 97802 and 97803. If Clinical Nutrition in the hospital receives a referral and evaluates a patient during an IP admission, the assessment would be the initial assessment and plan of treatment. Charge capture does not occur at our hospital for IPs, so 97802 for the Initial assessment would not be reported/captured. However, when the patient is discharged and the next subsequent Clinical Nutrition visit takes place as OP, is CPT 97803 the appropriate charge to report since the OP assessment is a follow-up and not the initial?
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