Pediatric Coding Alert
Neonatal Critical Care
Florida Subscriber
Answer: If the child is critically ill and transferred to the NICU but the services are provided by the original pediatrician, the neonatal critical care code (99295) applies. This is a daily, global code that covers essentially all the procedures performed in a NICU.
If the baby continues to be critically ill and remains in the NICU, then 99296-99298, subsequent day neonatal intensive care codes, are used for each following day. If the infant transfers from the NICU neonatology service to a general pediatric service, then use codes 99231-99233 (subsequent hospital care).
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