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Critical Care:

You Must Meet Both The "Critical" Illness and the Time Thresholds To Accurately Report Critical Care

Published on Tue Oct 21, 2014

Review these strategies to avoid auditors’ scrutiny.  Critical care coding is often the target of payer audits -- and mistakes can cost you.  Because the critical care codes are unlike the other E/M codes reported in the ED typically using the 9928x code set in documentation requirements, these can be misunderstood by those unfamiliar with the rules that do apply. [...]
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