BC Advantage - 2021 Issue 2

Critical Care Billing: It's the Little Things

Critical care billing is relatively simple. Documentation requires three items -The patient is critically ill.What the provider is doing to treat or prevent organ system failure or compromise.How much time the provider spent providing critical care.While critical care billing is relatively simple, several minor details can allow providers to accumulate more billable time. The key to this is that critical care services are time-based. Any time spent in direct care for the patient is billable time.Family decision-making. One frequently missed billable hour is the time spent discussing treatment options with family members when a patient...

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