Question 1: For the Inpatient Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care heading, loca

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Question 1: For the Inpatient Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care heading, located in the valuation and Management section of CPT notes were revised to ensure consistency. Prior to CPT 2017, notes below neonatal critical care services (99468, 99469) and pediatric critical care services (99471-99476) differed even though the services were identical except for the age of the patient treated. Thus, the same terminology is now used for Inpatient Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care codes. Which of the following is avoided by this guidance? OA. "Consistency" with other CPT sections, subsections, headings, and subheadings O B. Decision to delete the codes in a "future" revision of the CPT coding manual C. Denial of third-party payer claims denial and "detection" of health care fraud and abuse D. Misinterpretation of notes below codes for neonatal and pediatric critical care "services"

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1 A Earlier the codes 99293-99296 were deleted and replaced by four new ,age-specific codes to identify the initial and subsequent dates of service and brings all the critical care codes for neonatal and paediatric patients together in the section 99471-99476.

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