Pulmonology Coding Alert
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Get a Grip on Critical Care Time With This Simple But Useful Reference Chart
Published on Thu May 11, 2006
Learn when to report 99292 more than once
Make reporting critical care easy with this simple chart. Check your pulmonologist's documented total critical care time per date of service 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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