Neonatal Critical Care Coding: CPT 2010 Clarifies Resuscitation Guidance

Payers denying 99465-25? Here’s help straight from the AMA Symposium in Chicago.
Question: There’s a notation in the CPT 2009 manual that the neonatal critical care codes include delivery room resuscitation. Is this true?
Answer: No, a parenthetical note following 99465 (Delivery/birthing room resuscitation, provision of positive pressure ventilation and/or chest compressions in the presence of acute […]

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