Wiki does "15 minutes" in a conscious sedation code mean "up to"?

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My practicode dinged me on this: there was conscious sedation for 25 minutes; and I entered only 99152 and not 99153, because I thought "each additional 15 minutes" would logically not include less than 15. I suppose this means that it does?
 
My practicode dinged me on this: there was conscious sedation for 25 minutes; and I entered only 99152 and not 99153, because I thought "each additional 15 minutes" would logically not include less than 15. I suppose this means that it does?


Look on page 847 of the 2022 CPT manual - it has a table showing the total time for each unit of moderate (conscious) sedation.

The chart shows that for Total Intraservice time between 23-37 minutes, you'd report 99152 and 99153 (1 unit).
 
As long as you have at least the midpoint (8 minutes), you can report the add-on unit. The chart in the CPT manual is a nice reference so you don't have to do the math.

The 23-37 minute range comes from:

23 minutes = Initial 15 minutes (99152) + 8 minute threshold to use the add on code 99153

37 minutes = Initial 15 minutes (99152) + 15 minutes (99153) + 7 minutes left over that don't hit the threshold to bill another unit of 99153

At 38 minutes, you'd bill 99152 and 2 units of 99153 (15 + 15 + 8)
 
Thank you very much. By any chance do you know offhand the location of that chart in the 2022 e-book CPT manual? I bought that, which I very much regret, because it's extremely clumsy and difficult to navigate in the browser (Firefox, for me). I'm not really prepared to go to the additional expense of buying the paper book.
 
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