AMA CPT® Assistant - 2003 Issue 6 (June)
Special Services, Procedures and Reports/Miscellaneous Services/Medicine (June 2003)
June 2003 page 10 Coding Consultation:Questions and Answers Medicine, 99026, 99027 (Q&A) Question In 2003, codes 99026, Hospital mandated on call service; in-hospital, each hour, and code 99027, Hospital mandated on call service; out-of-hospital, each hour, have been added to report the physician hospital mandated on-call services. How should hospital mandated on-call services be reported? AMA Comment Codes 99026-99027 are intended to describe services provided by a physician who is on-call per hospital mandate, as a condition of medical staff privileges. These codes are used to report the on-call time spent by the physician when he or she...
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