Critical care payments, bucking E/M trends, jumped 11% in 2020
The toll of the COVID pandemic caused reduced services across many types of patient encounters in 2020, but critical care services didn’t suffer. They expanded. Perhaps due to the health impact of the COVID scourge, practices increased revenue for critical care encounters (99291-99292) by more than 10% in 2020 compared to the year before.
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