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Answer These 3 Questions to Solidify Critical Care Coding

Published on Fri Jun 17, 2016

If the ‘critical care’ doesn’t last 30 minutes, we’ve got the coding solution. One of the more challenging — and most profitable — evaluation and management (E/M) services to report is critical care. There are several criteria the visit must meet in order to report critical care, and missing even one of these elements could result in a denial. On [...]
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