Evaluation And Management
Chapter 2
Section 6.1
Patient
Transport
Issue Date: March 11, 2002
Copyright: CPT only © 2006 American Medical
Association (or such other date of publication of CPT).
All Rights Reserved.
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1.0 CPT PROCEDURE CODES
99289, 99290
2.0 DESCRIPTION
Patient transport refers to
physician attendance and direct face-to-face care by a physician during
the interfacility transport of a critically ill or injured patient.
Face-to-face care begins when the physician assumes the primary
responsibility of the patient at the referring hospital/facility
and ends when the receiving hospital/facility accepts responsibility
for the patient’s care.
3.0 POLICY
Procedure(s) or service(s)
performed/directed by the physician before and during transport
of a critically ill or injured patient is a covered benefit.
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