Occasionally I have discharges on the weekends or when I'm off for vacation. Was curious how people are handling billing for such encounters. My understanding is you can only bill for face-to-face encounter so if you don't see them you can't bill on that day. However, you can bill for time on discharge and this technically can be cumulative time, after having discussion with my billers. Do you just bill a higher level note on your last actual visit with the patient, documenting discharge planning and conversation, or are you just doing the discharge note as the last day you saw them.
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