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Be Critical of Using This Code in Psychiatric Encounters

Published on Tue Mar 23, 2021

Question: Can we report critical care for a patient with suicidal ideation? Our coders have discussed this in depth and have determined that suicidal patients should not be coded as critical care because “psychiatric” is not an organ system that could be impaired such that there is a high probability of imminent or life threatening deterioration in the patient’s condition. [...]
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