Critical Care CPT Codes: ICU, NICU & PICU Billing Guide
Critical care CPT coding follows different rules depending on the patient’s age, care setting, time spent, and services performed. Adult ICU services are primarily time-based, while neonatal and pediatric critical care use age-specific per-day codes. That distinction matters. The same high-acuity environment can involve completely different coding logic and small mistakes in time thresholds, age […]

