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50: Billing
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Published:May 2023
Daxa P. Clarke, MD, FAAP, Katherine Johnson, MD, FAAP, "Billing", Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Hospital Medicine, Jeffrey C. Gershel, MD, FAAP, Daniel A. Rauch, MD, FAAP, SFHM
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There are 2 types of billing for all hospitalized patients: professional and facility/hospital. Professional billing covers the medical expertise of the physician/clinician for that day’s patient care. The facility bill represents everything except the physician/clinician’s bill, including the room charges, nursing, medications, radiographic studies, laboratory studies, and ancillary staff (eg nutritionists, case workers) who are employed by the facility and cannot report separately.
Professional bills are submitted each day the patient is seen by a physician/clinician. Every clinical service that sees the patient submits a daily bill. However, multiple providers from the same specialty (eg, day and night hospitalist) usually...
