According to CPT 2012 guidelines, when a neonate is transferred from intensive care (99477) to a lower-level care, the transferring physician should report subsequent hospital care (99231-99233). If the neonate or infant must be transferred to critical care on a day when initial or subsequent intensive care services have been performed, the transferring physician reports either the critical care (99291-99292) or the intensive care (99477), but not both. The receiving physician reports subsequent inpatient neonatal or pediatric critical care (99469, 99472).
What is the CPT code to be reported by the transferring physician when a neonate is transferred to critical care on the same day that initial intensive care services were performed?
According to CPT 2012 guidelines, when a neonate is transferred from intensive care (99477) to a lower-level care, the transferring physician should report subsequent hospital care (99231-99233). If the neonate or infant must be transferred to critical care on a day when initial or subsequent intensive care services have been performed, the transferring physician reports either the critical care (99291-99292) or the intensive care (99477), but not both. The receiving physician reports subsequent inpatient neonatal or pediatric critical care (99469, 99472).
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