tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2024 Issue Q3

You Be the Coder: A-lines and Critical Care

Question: A patient with acute respiratory failure with hypoxia is brought to the ED in a critical state. The ED physician performs critical care services totaling 85 minutes. During that time, the ED physician also performed arterial line (A-line) placement; they placed a thin catheter via guidewire into the patient’s radial artery to for continuous blood pressure monitoring and blood sampling. The A-line placement took a total of 22 minutes. Can I report the line placement separately from the critical care, and if so, which line placement code should I report? Arizona Subscriber Answer: You can report the...

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