Pediatric Coding Alert

CPT also changes pediatric transport code bundles effective in 2011. Get ready for a whole new crop of bundles with pediatric critical care and transport services in 2011. In fact, CPT has gone retro with pediatric critical care transport codes 99466-99467, reverting the bundles back to the 2007 rules. That's the word from Peter A. Hollmann, MD, vice chair of the CPT Editorial Panel, who outlined the changes during his presentation on E/M, Vaccines, and Time-Based Codes at the AMA CPT Symposium in Chicago last month. At issue: Effective Jan. 1, CPT will change which services are bundled into critical care codes 99291-99292 based on whether a facility or professional reports the services. Plus, CPT will return the list of services bundled into 99466-99467 to the bundles that were in effect as of 2007, Hollmann said. Pediatric transport: Starting in 2011, "the following services are included when performed during the [...]