General Surgery Coding Alert
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Quick-Reference Critical Care Chart
Published on Mon Apr 03, 2006
Make reporting critical care easy with this simple chart. Just check the physician's documented total critical care time per date of service and look for the corresponding block below to choose the correct units of 99291 and 99292.
For critical care time lasting beyond the examples listed here, simply add one unit of 99292 for each additional 30 minutes, in the same manner illustrated in the chart. 
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