tci Part B Insider - 2013 Issue 11

Part B Coding Coach: Are You Documenting Your Critical Care Time Accurately?

Check out these resources to see if your policies are in order.     Every coder knows critical care is a time-based code. But there can be some confusion about what documentation is required to justify the time reported. Where do you turn for definitive direction? Key resources: The most obvious places to look are the CPT® book and the Medicare Claims Processing Manual. Per CPT®, "Time spent with the individual patient should be recorded in the patient’s record" and the CMS manual tells us that "the physician’s progress note(s) shall document the total time that critical...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Part B Insider.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI’s Part B Insider will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4800 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles

This feature is currently unavailable for online purchase. For more information, please call 801-770-4203 or Contact Us.

demo
request yours today
subscribe
start today
newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.