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Published on Wed Mar 20, 2013

Question: When two physicians of the same specialty and group practice provide critical care to the same patient on the same day at different times, I add the times for each physician together (as long as one meets the minimum of 30 min) in order to determine what code(s) to bill. I am being told by another coder that you [...]
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