Critical Care Time
Teaching/Resident Physicians
• Teaching Physicians
– Time spent teaching may not be counted
towards critical care time.
– Time spent by the resident, in the
absence of the teaching physician, cannot
be billed by the teaching physician as
critical care or other time-based services
– Only time spent by the resident and
teaching physician together with the
patient or the teaching physician alone
with the patient can be counted toward
critical care time.