Billing and Documentation Update

Topics Covered

• Adult critical care
  • CPT coding guidelines
  • Procedures and services included in critical care
  • Documentation requirements for critical care services
• APPs in the hospital setting
  • Types of services performed
  • Direct billing considerations
  • Split/shared visit guidelines
• Critical care documentation
  • Practical examples and best practices

Learning Objectives

• Recognize how medical necessity is the driving factor in supporting critical care services
• Explain split/shared visits in critical care and hospital services with required documentation and modifiers to support the visit
• Recognize how documentation impacts reimbursement for critical care visits

Practice Gap
There is considerable variability in both education on and interpretation of the appropriateness of billing and documentation for critical care services. This webcast will provide key recommendations and best practices for billing and documentation for all critical care practitioners.