I'm currently working in a new hospital. How do we bill for the patients in ER, who just got admitted as inpatient, but cannot be transferred to the ward/regular room yet due to unavailability of room? I was informed that we cannot bill a regular room (i.e. Med Surg rate) if the hospital capacity is at its maximum. Some suggested terminologies such as ER-holding or ER-overflow...but we don't have details on how to set the codes for billing.

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