Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
Initial hospital inpatient or observation care, per day, for the evaluation and management of a patient, which requires a medically appropriate history and/or examination and straightforward or low level medical decision making. When using total time on the date of the encounter for code selection, 40 minutes must be met or exceeded.
Houston, TX
Price type
Mhhs Imaging Center’s median price of $289 is 140% above the median hospital's median price ($120), higher than 82% of the 1,291 hospitals reporting CPT 99221. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: Nov 6, 2024
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