CPT CODES Ch. 7 in purple books
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Category I Codes | procedures/services |
| Category II Codes | performance measurements |
| Category III Codes | Emerging Technology |
| Critical Care Services | reported when a physician directly delivers medical care for a critically ill or critically injured patient |
| E/M Codes | CPT codes assigned to physician services |
| Face-to-Face Time | amount of time the office or outpatient care provider spends with the patient and/or family |
| Global Surgery | aka package concept or surgical package; includes various procedures being done |
| Home Services | health care services provided in a home |
| Hospital Discharge Service | final examination of the patient, discussion of the patients hospital stay, instructions for continuing care and preperation of discharge records, prescriptions and referral forms |
| Level of Service | reflects the amount of worked involved in providing health care to patients |
| Medical Decision Making | refers to the complexity of establishing a diagnosis and/or selecting management option |
| Observation Services | furnished in a hospital outpatient setting determines whether further treatment or inpatient admission is needed |
| Place of Service (POS) | explains the setting in which the services were provided to the patient |
| Professional Components | supervision of procedure, interpretation and writing of the report |
| Prolong Services | when treatment exceeds by 30 minutes or more the time included in the CPT description of the service |
| Referral | a patient who reports that another provider referred him/her |
| Skin Lesion | any alteration of the skin |
| Type of Service (TOS) | reason the service is requested and performed |
| Unlisted Procedure | aka unlisted service; assigned when the provider performs a procedure of service for which their is no CPT code |
| Unlisted Service | same as unlisted procedure |
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