BC Advantage - 2022 Issue 5

Concurrent Critical Care

A great deal of time was spent this year with new coding updates focusing on critical care split shared updates, but not much time was given to all of the other red-lined updates in the critical care section of the CMS Claims Processing Manual. Let's focus our attention now on the topic of Concurrent Critical Care.Concurrent Critical Care is when members of the same group Tax ID and the same specialty both provide critical care to the same patient on the same calendar day. While we do see a sharing occur between physicians, we now see this has...

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