Mr. Mira shared three reminders for billing critical care services:
1. For payment purposes, critical care is defined by a patient’s condition — not his or her location.
2. There are two time-based codes for performing critical care services on a patient age 6 or older: 99291 (for the first 30 to 74 minutes) and +99292 (an add-on code for each additional 30 minutes).
3. Several critical care services are bundled, including pulse oximetry, gastric intubation and ventilator management.
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