tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2003 Issue 1

Critical Care Codes Undergo Revisions for 2003

Revisions to critical care codes in CPT 2003 mean that general surgeons can more accurately report such services for both adult and younger patients, and possibly receive greater reimbursement for neonatal critical care. CPT 2003 more precisely differentiates critical care services provided to patients of different ages, and it changes the neonatal critical care codes to match the adult critical care codes more closely both in the definition of critical illness and in the services bundled into the codes, says Marcella Bucknam, CPC, CCS-P, CPC-H,CCA, HIM Program Coordinator at Clarkson College in Omaha, Neb. New codes 99293 (Initial...

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