Question: A patient leaves a nursing facility (NF) against medical advice (AMA). Can the FP charge a discharge service?
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Answer: Check if the FP provided a face-to-face service before the patient left the NF. If the physician saw the patient on the same day prior to his or her departure from the nursing facility, you should bill subsequent nursing facility care (99307-99310). Since the FP did not discharge the patient, no discharge management should have occurred. [...]
