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Critical Care:

Focus on Patient Condition When Deciding on 99291/99292

Published on Wed Aug 21, 2013

Tip: Get your provider to spell out time spent. Whether your providers perform critical care services once a year or once a day, if you only look for the place of service and not the patient’s condition, you’ll set yourself up for inappropriate billing of critical care codes. Read on to know more about when you can bill critical care [...]
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