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Bust Typical Critical Care Myths to Ensure Clean E/M Coding

Published on Wed Sep 11, 2019

Don’t separately report the services that are bundled into critical care. If your neurosurgeon uses high-complexity decision-making to assess, manipulate, and support vital system functions to treat a patient who suffers from vital organ system failure or to prevent further life-threatening conditions, you may be able to report the critical care E/M codes — 99291 (Critical care, evaluation and management [...]
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