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Hone Critical Care Coding With CPT® and Medicare Rules

Published on Thu Apr 20, 2023

Don’t unbundle 99291 services. Just because CPT® 2023 didn’t revise critical care codes doesn’t mean you’re off the hook for updating how you report these services. Backstory: CPT® 2023 revised most hospital/inpatient evaluation and management (E/M) codes (See General Surgery Coding Alert Vol. 24 No. 12, “Embrace E/M Shift to Time or MDM”), but critical care codes 99291 (Critical care, [...]
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