Coding Cues: Specifying place of service—satellite or outpatient facility?

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Our surgery practice has a satellite office in a nearby hospital. We report place of service 11 (office) for the E&M services we provide at that location, but our Medicare carrier recently notified us that because we're located in an outpatient hospital facility, we should be specifying place of service 22 (outpatient) instead. Is this correct?

Reporting a patient's drug seeking behavior

Coding Cues: Avoiding "incident to" situations with ancillary personnel