CPT Codes with Garry Kauffman and Joe Garcia
Garry Kauffman, RRT FAARC MPA FACHE, former AARC President, interviews Joe Garcia, RCP RRT, Regional Respiratory Director for California’s Central Valley for a National Healthcare System, to discuss the limitations a CPT based productivity system is in capturing Respiratory Department workload. They speak to how to track Respiratory Department value-added clinical activities that don’t have CPT codes and how to effectively advocate to Administration to include these clinical activities when determining staffing.