tci E/M Coding 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...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci E/M Coding Alert.


Stay informed, get answers to your E/M coding and documentation questions, and find the help you need to bank your deserved pay with your subscription to TCI’s E/M Coding Alert.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 500 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2013 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • tci E/M Coding Alert +Archives

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.