AMA CPT® Assistant - 2015 Issue 10 (October)
Coding Brief: Reporting Selective Head or Total Body Hypothermia (99184) (October 2015)
October 2015 page 8 Coding Brief: Reporting Selective Head or Total Body Hypothermia (99184) When performing selective head or total body hypothermia in the treatment of a critically ill neonate, the physician or qualified health care profession would report CPT® code 99184. Previous hypothermia treatment codes 99481 and 99482 were deleted in 2015, and code 99184 was established to represent a single initiation code for total body or selective head hypothermia treatment of neonates. New code 99184 allows the reporting of initiation of hypothermia treatment in addition to the daily global neonatal and pediatric critical care codes without overlap...
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