AMA CPT® Assistant - 2004 Issue 8 (August)

Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care (August 2004)

August 2004 pages 7-9 Coding Communications:Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care As a result of the substantial revisions to the critical care services code descriptors and guidelines implemented into CPT 2003, further refinements have been incorporated into CPT 2004 to complement the previous revisions. This coding update will focus on three specific developments within the Critical Care Services section of CPT 2004. First is the revision of the critical care services guidelines, neonatal and pediatric critical care services guidelines, and neonatal and pediatric critical care code descriptors to clarify inpatient and outpatient reporting of critical care services. The CPT Editorial...

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