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Expert Answers For Your 5 Key Critical Care E/M Questions

Published on Fri May 20, 2016

Duration of care for critical illness or injury is important for 99291/99292. Critical care is a key component in neurosurgical procedures. One of the most difficult decisions to make is when you are coding evaluation and management (E/M) services in critical care. There are two codes that you should target and carefully choose from: 99291 (Critical care, evaluation and management [...]
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