A list of diagnoses that support critical care services(99291,99292)

  • Acute cardiac complications, such as arrest, insufficiency or failure, during or following a procedure
  • Acute respiratory failure
  • Air embolism
  • Amniotic fluid embolism
  • Anaphylactic shock
  • Cardiac arrest
  • Cardiogenic shock without mention of trauma
  • Failed attempted abortion complicated by shock
  • Fat embolism
  • Illegally induced abortion complicated by shock
  • Legally induced abortion complicated by shock
  • Malignant hypothermia or hyperpyrexia due to anesthesia
  • Obstetrical blood clot embolism
  • Respiratory arrest
  • Shock due to anesthesia
  • Shock following abortion and ectopic and molar pregnancies
  • Shock, including hypovolemic and septic, without mention of trauma
  • Shock, unspecified without mention of trauma
  • Spontaneous abortion complicated by shock
  • Traumatic shock
  • Unspecified abortion complicated by shock
  • Ventricular fibrillation

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