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Inpatient Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care CPT® Code range 99468- 99476

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code range for Inpatient Neonatal Intensive Care Services and Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care Services 99468-99476 is a medical code set maintained by the American Medical Association.

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CPT® Code Range 99468- 99476
Section 99468-99476
Inpatient Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care
99468
99469
99471
99472
99473
99474
99475
99476
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Am I correct in thinking that the only codes that are allowed to be billed as a Split (or Shared) are codes 99202-99215 (Other Outpatient) , 99217-99226 (Hospital Observation), 99221-99239 (Hospital I... [ Read More ]
Neonatal Critical Care versus Intensive Care
I'm having difficulty deciphering the difference between Neonatal Critical Care (99468-99476) vs Intensive Care (99477-99480) and their appropriate applications. When I share the CPT descriptions of t... [ Read More ]
Specialist called into NCCU-what code would you use?
[QUOTE="arosborne, post: 414937, member: 353926"]Obviously the providers who don’t bill the 99468-99476 for each day have to have a code to get paid from and that is why this rule on 99291, 99292 is... [ Read More ]
Specialist called into NCCU-what code would you use? 99291 99292 infectious disease nccu pediatric
We have a solo pediatric infectious disease specialist who sees many neonatal patients in NCCU. All other insurance companies (mostly Medicaid products) pay when he bills 99291/99291 for these patient... [ Read More ]
Pediatric Critical Care and patient passing away the same day....OK to bill for C.C?
My question is that the patient was in critical care from 12:16pm and in the note, the patient passed away from a large left cerebellar bleed at 7:27pm, since CPT 99476 is an all day critical care co... [ Read More ]
Pediatric Critical Care
[b]Pediatric Critical Care codes[/b] Hey Erin: I'm a college student, and unfortunately cannot provide a definite answer. Although, I do hope this note I found provides some help: In the 2016 CPT c... [ Read More ]
Critical care
I work for Pediatric Neurologist and sometimes they see patients in the NICU. Are they allowed use Critical care codes 99468-99476 Also can they bill using 99477-99478?:o... [ Read More ]
Critical care for neonat or ped both inpt. and outpt.
On page 23 in CPT prof 2015, at the bottom right hand colum is a section that describes how to code for critical care for neonatal or pediatric pts. So to begin CPT states that "if the same individua... [ Read More ]
Help, discharge question
WOW I think you have to look at the Inpatient Neonatal Critical Care Codes; 99468-99476 first and foremost. It would seem to me that your providers should be using these codes if they care for neonate... [ Read More ]
Newborn Critical Care transport
Hello, Can you please provide me with a specific example so as to aid in the selection of the correct cpt code(s)? Thanks. Ann :) [QUOTE="volleyball246@hotmail.com, post: 332778, member: 225827"]... [ Read More ]
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