AMA CPT® Assistant - 2004 Issue 8 (August)

Evaluation and Management Services (August 2004)

August 2004 page 10d Coding Consultation:Questions and Answers Evaluation and Management, 99293-99292 (Q&A) Question If Physician A provides initial inpatient critical care services to a 10-month-old infant and Physician B, from a different practice, provides inpatient critical care services to the same infant on the same day, can they both report critical care services? AMA Comment From a CPT coding perspective, code 99293, Initial inpatient pediatric critical care, is used to report inpatient services provided by Physician A directing the inpatient care of a critically ill infant or young child from 31 days of postnatal age up through...

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