BC Advantage - 2018 Issue 4

Critical Care Documentation

Critical care documentation should showcritical need for the patient AND immediate action by the provider. Qualifying a service as a critical care service can be one of the hardest things we're asked to do as auditors because it can be such a hard judgment call to make. How critically ill is the patient during this particular encounter, and did the service as documented by the physician rise to the level of rendering a critical care service? Critical care services for patients over the age of five are billed with two codes: 99291 for the first 30-74 minutes...

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