Inpatient Hospital Visits With Dialysis Patients

90.2.1 - Inpatient Hospital Visits With Dialysis Patients (Rev. 1, 10-01-03) B3-15062-15062.1 Global billing practices that involve the submission of charges for each day that a patient is hospitalized are allowed. Therefore, A/B MACs (B) may make payment for inpatient hospital visits that are specified relative to time, place, day, and services directly provided to inpatients. This guideline may, however, differ with respect to daily visit charges for inpatient hospital visits with dialysis inpatients. When an ESRD patient is hospitalized, the hospitalization may or may not be due to a renal-related condition. In either case, the patient must continue to be dialyzed. Chapter 8 provides policy and payment instructions for physicians’ services furnished to dialysis inpatients. It also provides instructions for billing physicians’ renal-related medical services furnished on dialysis days and for dialysis and evaluation and management services performed on the same day.