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Mr. David Carpenter, PA-C, JM, FCCM

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Posted By David Carpenter 12-07-2022 13:41
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None of these are critical care in my opinion. 1. This is an example of hospital policy requiring admission to the ICU and no critical intervention is being performed. Now if the patient needs titration of Oxygen beyond what they are normally on, then that would qualify for critical care. 2. Monitoring ...
Posted By David Carpenter 12-02-2022 13:08
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We are currently billing using follow on rules not split shared. Per our MAC we divide the time into physician and APP lanes then divide the time per the critical care rules. In terms of distributing responsibilities: 1. If the team has resident physicians then the attending bills on those patients 2. ...
Posted By David Carpenter 06-06-2022 05:22
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Olivia, This is a common question. Unfortunately it is very complicated. First for all procedures, they must be medically necessary. Then to bill for POCUS, you have to generate a report which is viewable by others. This is usually the biggest challenge. In addition, most hospital medical staff limits ...
Posted By David Carpenter 11-16-2021 08:08
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Here are my takeaway points: The final rules include several important policy changes for critical care clinicians: Critical Care Shared (split) billing is allowed for critical care. Follow-up care – when medically necessary, physicians or APPs in the same specialty and same group may ...
Posted By David Carpenter 11-16-2021 08:03
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As originally proposed, due to the language used, the concern was that bundling included central line insertions such as those in the CPT 36555-36571 family. The clarification referred back to the AMA CPT guidelines for bundled procedures which include: Vascular access procedures (36000, 36410, 36415, ...