DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 9 (September)

CPT: Use inpatient prolonged service codes with subsequent observation care codes

If you provide subsequent observation care for at least 30 minutes longer than the typical time described by codes 99224-99226, CPT says you should be able to bill for prolonged service, since the subsequent observation codes include typical time estimates (unlike the initial observation codes 99218-99220). 

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