CPT Knowledgebase - Mar 8, 2022

Is it appropriate to report Current Procedural Terminology (CPT ) critical care services codes when patients are admitted to the critical care unit (CCU) for postoperative monitoring due to a high risk of compromise? In such cases, it has been observed that physicians or other qualified health care professionals (QHPs) order frequent monitoring (eg, neurologic checks post-cranial surgery or cardiorespiratory monitoring every hour), which is performed by nursing staff. Is monitoring alone sufficient to support critical care services? The terms manipulate and support used in the critical care services guidelines infer that actions beyond the normal actions of the physician or other QHP are required.

To view the Official AMA answer and 1000s more like this:

CPT® Knowledge Base is a compendium of real life coding questions asked by the coding community and answered by CPT® coding experts.

Over 2900 questions and authoritative answers from the CPT® professionals at the AMA. Get specific answers to challenging coding questions, and search the knowledge base of others' real world questions.

Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • AMA's CPT® Advanced Coding Pack

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

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