Critical Care: What’s Included? What’s Not?

Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes for reporting critical care and intensive care services are evaluation and management (E/M) codes but represent a package including certain procedural services that, when performed, are not separately reported. This article discusses the following critical and intensive care services and, importantly, services that are separately reported: Time-based critical care codes Daily critical care codes Intensive care codes Services not included in critical care