AMA CPT® Assistant - 2006 Issue 11 (November)

Evaluation and Management: Prolonged Services (November 2006)

November 2006 page 23b Evaluation and Management: Prolonged Services, 99360 (Q&A) Question How do you report a physician's service when the physician is not directly providing care to the patient, but has stayed in the hospital (eg, when there is a likelihood that his/her services would be needed) to provide emergency obstetric services? In this case, the patient did not deliver within this physician's presence in the hospital. AMA Comment Code 99360, Physician standby service, requiring prolonged physician attendance, each 30 minutes (eg, operative standby, standby for frozen section, for cesarean/high risk delivery, for monitoring EEG), is intended...

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