CPT Knowledgebase - Aug 8, 2016

In a facility billing scenario, Physician A sees a patient early in the day providing 50 minutes of critical care time. Physician B (colleague from the same group and medical specialty) sees the same patient later in the day and provides 35 minutes of critical care time. Total time of critical care services = 85 minutes. Should we report 99291 and 1 unit of add-on code 99292?

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