AMA CPT® Assistant - 2019 Issue 8 (August)

Coding for Critical Care Services Revisited (August 2019)

August 2019 page 8 Coding for Critical Care Services Revisited Critical care, as defined by the 2019 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, is the direct delivery by a physician(s) or other qualified health care professional (QHP) of medical care for a critically ill or critically injured patient. A critical illness or injury acutely impairs one or more vital organ system(s), such that there is a high probability of imminent or life-threatening deterioration in the patient’s condition. Critical care involves high complexity decision making to assess, manipulate, and support vital system function(s) to treat single or multiple vital...

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