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The American Thoracic Society improves global health by advancing research, patient care, and public health in pulmonary disease, critical illness, and sleep disorders. Founded in 1905 to combat TB, the ATS has grown to tackle asthma, COPD, lung cancer, sepsis, acute respiratory distress, and sleep apnea, among other diseases.
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Find abstracts of original investigations and case reports from slides and posters presented at CHEST 2020, held October 18-21, 2020 online, featuring essential updates in critical care, sleep, and pulmonary disorders.
They are life and organ supporting interventions that require frequent, personal assessment and manipulation by the physician. Withdrawal of, or failure to initiate these interventions on an urgent basis would likely result in sudden, clinically significant or life-threatening deterioration in the patient's condition.
Physicians of a different specialty may each report CPT code 99291 if they are providing care that is unique to his/her individual medical specialty and managing at least one of the patient's critical illness (es) or critical injury (ies)
Only one physician or non-physician practitioner may bill for critical care services during any one single period of time even if more than one physician is providing care to a critically ill patient.
Clinical condition criterion – There is a high probability of sudden, clinically significant, or life-threatening deterioration in the patient's condition which requires the highest level of physician preparedness to intervene urgently .
Since critical care is a time-based code, the physician's progress note must contain documentation of the total time involved providing critical care services.
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For any given period of time spent providing critical care services, the provider must devote his or her full attention to the patient and, therefore, cannot provide services to any other patient during the same period of time.