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Are you correctly Using 99291 and 99292 codes?

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Critical care is the direct delivery by a physician(s) of medical care for a critically sick or injured patient.  The care of such patients involves decision making of high complexity to assess, manipulate, and uphold central nervous system failure, circulatory failure, stun like conditions, renal, hepatic, metabolic, or respiratory failure, postoperative complications, overwhelming infection, or other fundamental system capacities to treat single or multiple indispensable organ system failure or to prevent further deterioration.  It may require extensive interpretation of multiple databases and the use of advanced technology to manage the patient.  Critical care services include yet are not limited to, the treatment or prevention of further deterioration of the central nervous system failure, circulatory failure, stun-like conditions, renal, hepatic, metabolic, or respiratory failure, postoperative complications, or overwhelming infection.  To reliably and consistently determine that