AMA CPT® Assistant - 1992 Issue 4 (April)

Nursing Facility Services Codes (Winter 1992)

Winter 1992 page 22-end Coding Clarification Nursing Facility Services Codes In the Fall 1992 issue of the CPT Assistant, we discussed the rationale behind the changes to the codes which formerly described services provided by the physician in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF's), Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF's), or Long Term Care Facilities (LTCF's). The Nursing Facility Services codes (which replace these previous categories) are also used to report evaluation and management services provided to a patient in a psychiatric residential treatment center. The same definitions of key components and commonly used terms found in the Evaluation and Management Services Guidelines...

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