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Reader Questions: ED Visit + Critical Care? Report Only 99291

Published in Gastroenterology Coding Alert, June 2010

Question: A patient with abdominal pain presents to the ED, where the on-call gastroenterologist sees her. The patient undergoes an abdominal scan and laboratory tests, but when the patient begins vomiting blood, the gastroenterologist is called back to resume the care in the intensive care unit. The same on-call gastroenterologist then provides critical care for 35 minutes in total in the intensive care unit. How should I report this?
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Published in Gastroenterology Coding Alert, June 2010
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