Newborn Coding Decision Tool 2024

by American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Coding and Nomenclature

Overview

This comprehensive chart updated for 2024 provides clear, easy-to-follow guidelines on how to code for initial and subsequent services when a newborn’s situation changes.
Included in this helpful tool:

• Guidance for selecting the correct initial or subsequent care codes for services to newborns
• Choosing hourly versus daily critical care codes
• Differentiating hospital care of an ill newborn from intensive and critical care services
• Identification of bundled and separately reported services provided in conjunction with neonatal intensive and critical care services

New for 2024- CPT guidance for split or shared visits.

It is 11" x 17" and laminated for extra durability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610026918
Publisher:	American Academy of Pediatrics
Publication date:	01/01/2024
Pages:	2
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 17.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

The AAP Committee on Coding and Nomenclature (COCN) is responsible for reviewing of all proposed changes to CPT and ICD-10-CM coding structures to determine whether the Academy will endorse the proposal; participates in the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee's (RUC) survey process by validating clinical vignettes, evaluating survey data, and deciding on physician work and practice expense relative value units (RVUs) to recommend to the RUC; and serves as a review panel regarding other activities such as identifying Academy positions on the RBRVS. The COCN also monitors the Medicare RBRVS physician fee schedule and its adoption by private and public payers.

To update pediatricians on its activities, including the formal publication of new and revised CPT and ICD-10-CM coding structures and final values for CPT codes used by pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and pediatric surgical specialists, the COCN publishes periodic articles in AAP News along with a monthly coding column called Coding ​Corner.