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Coding Definitions:

Heed These 'Critical' Patient Care Parameters

Published on Wed May 24, 2017

Peds patients must still meet critical illness, injury standards. When you’re reporting critical care services for your pediatric patients, some of the claims will require pediatric critical care codes 99468 (Initial inpatient neonatal critical care, per day, for the evaluation and management of a critically ill neonate, 28 days of age or younger) through 99476 (Subsequent inpatient pediatric critical care, [...]
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