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Bob-Dole

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Many different E/M categories have been discussed in Chapter 16: Prolonged services Newborn care Critical care Inpatient neonatal care Pediatric and neonatal critical care Unlisted E/M services Identify which of these E/M categories you find the MOST challenging.
 
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Critical care services are a distinct set of E/M services reflected in two CPT codes. In at least ten sentences, identify why content of service is not required for these two CPT codes. Why not? How do these two codes reflect the complicated and challenging care provided by physicians in an intensive care setting?
 
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Answer to Question 1

Answers should include (but may not be limited to) the following:
 The E/M category you find the most challenging, including
 the aspect of the category requirements
 the site of service
 healthcare service provided

Answer to Question 2

Answers should include (but may not be limited to) the following:
 Because critical care requires time to assess the presentation of the critical illness, as well as the time to identify the illness, injury or disease process that is contributing to the vital organ system failure, intraservice time becomes the overwhelming factor in reporting care provided in an intensive care setting.
 Content of service is not warranted in reporting critical care services because the history is not as important as the physical examination. Likewise, medical decision making may comprise the majority of the intraservice time in an intensive care setting.
 Although intraservice time is such an important factor when reporting critical care, there are clear requirements for the documentation of intraservice time spent in providing critical care. The performance of such services as include reviewing records and diagnostic results and discussing the patient's critical illness or injury with other qualified healthcare professionals, services that may not occur at the patient's bedside or in the presence of the patient's family. As with unit/floor intraservice time, any activities performed or time spent by the physician away from the unit or off the floor may not be counted as critical care time.
 Reference to the four part conditional statement may be included.



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