Wiki critical care again

[alices]

Please someone help me on this, my pulmonolgy dr has a note that he says he spent 4 hours and 35 minutes critical care in intervals of 35 minutes he does have a note but it doesn't give any times other than the above and to me the note only looks like it couldn't cover 4 hours and 35 minutes. if they are in 35 min interval don't you think that it should have more than just half a page? he also says he did a egd by bedside ultrasound and that's all he says on than..thank you for the help..alice

 

[FTessaBartels]

Critical Care time

The time spent providing direct critical care to the patient CAN NOT include any time spent in performing procedures which are separately billable.

So #1 he has to separate out any time he spent on the EGD or other billable procedures.

Without seeing the actual full documentation I could not tell you whether this would meet the standards for billing critical care, but it IS possible.

Hope that helps.

F Tessa Bartels, CPC, CEMC