Cpt Flashcards
Spontaneous abortion, 59812, occurs in what trimester?
Any trimester
In the CPT alphabetic index, what six descriptions can be utilized to look at the code?
Service/procedure, anatomic site/body organ, condition/disease/problem, cinnamon, eponym, abbreviation or acronym.
Give several examples of the type of service
Critical care, consultation, initial hospital care, subsequent hospital care, confirmatory consultation
What is concurrent care?
The provision of similar services such as hospital inpatient visits to the same patient by more than one provider on the same day
T or f:There is no subsequent day observation code only an initial
True assign the code from office another outpatient services with observation services received on a second calendar day in the patient is not
If a patient is admitted and discharge on the same day how should the provider Bill?
Do not report both and admit and discharge code only report observation or inpatient care services code 99234-99236
Define a hospital inpatient
Someone who is admitted and discharged and is a length of stay of one or more days
When is initial hospital care e&m code assigned
For the first inpatient counter reported by the admitting or attending physician once per hospitalization
How would you report the code for a patient that is admitted after having received observation services on the same day?
Report only the initial hospital care code
What should not be reported on the same day as the hospital discharge day management code?
Hospital E and M visit
Dr. Smith sees a patient in the office and send them to the emergency room. Dr. Smith meets the patient in the ER, then the ER DR sends the patient home. How does Dr. Smith bill for his time?
Dr. Smith would bill in emergency room evaluation and management only. No IV
If a physician treat the patient in his office then admits the patient to the hospital how would they charge?
Charge only for the initial hospital care evaluation and management
When might a critical care code be used?
What a patient requires explosive physician attention and is critically ill or injured.usually involving impairment of one or more vital organ systems or jeopardizing the patient survival
To bill for critical care services is it require that the physician always be at the patient’s bedside?
No time maybe spent away from the patient with family members or making decisions about the patient’s care
True or false: critical care can only be provided on a single day?
False it can be provided on multiple days
