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5 FAQs Ensure You Meet Specific Critical Care Criteria, Mind Time Requirements

Published on Wed Aug 21, 2019

Don’t separately report the services that are bundled into critical care. If your cardiologist uses high-complexity decision-making to assess, manipulate, and support vital system functions to treat a patient who suffers from vital organ system failure or to prevent further life-threatening conditions, you may be able to report the critical care evaluation and management (E/M) codes — 99291 and +99292. [...]
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