Medscape June 30, 2021
Larry Beresford, MDedge News

Coding and billing for the professional services of physicians and other practitioners in the hospital and for the hospital’s facility costs are separate and distinct processes. But both reflect the totality of care given to patients in the complex, costly, heavily regulated setting of an acute care hospital. And both are essential to the financial well-being of the hospital and its providers, and to their mutual ability to survive current financial uncertainties imposed by the COVID pandemic.

“What hospitalists don’t realize is that your professional billing is a completely separate entity [from the facility’s billing],” said Aziz Ansari, DO, SFHM, hospitalist, professor of medicine, and associate chief medical officer for clinical optimization and revenue integrity at Loyola University Medical Center...

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