tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 41

Critical Care: Are You Leaving Cash On The Table For Critical Care Services?

Quick test will say for sureWhen your physician performs critical care services, it's critical to bill for everything your physician did along with the critical care.Wrong idea: Some coders mistakenly believe that everything the doctor does is bundled into critical care because you bill for critical care based on time. But in fact, the book lists items that are bundled  into critical care, and anything that isn't on that list should be billable, say experts.These services are bundled: interpretation of cardiac output measurements (CPT 93561 , 93562); pulse oximetry (94760, 94761, 94762); chest x-rays (71010, 71015, 71020)...

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