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Post Billing for Social Work Visit
Author: cklein
Date: May 29, 2009 5:29 pm
Do any of your Palliative Care Services charge for psychosocials or Social Work visits? If so, what codes are used?
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Re:Billing for Social Work Visit (by SharolHerr on 06/22/2009)
In the acute care setting these visits are not generally billed. The social workers are not functioning as professional counselors but rather as medical social workers on the IDT.
Sharol Herr, RN, MSEd; Nurse Clinician/Education Coordinator; Mount Carmel Health Palliative Care Leadership Center; Columbus, Ohio.

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