When a hospital provides services to a Medicare patient as an outpatient within 72 hours before a related inpatient admission, charges for those outpatient services __________________________.?

A) must be billed separately from the inpatient bill
B) ?must not be billed separately from the inpatient bill
C) must be written off as "uncollectable" expenses
D) ?must be billed prior to the inpatient admission


B

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