What is the difference between emergency services and critical care?How do you code when critical care services are provided during an emergency department encounter?

Discussion Board Topic: In this module we learned about outpatient hospital coding.
Discuss the following:

What is the difference between emergency services and critical care? Give examples of each.

How do you code when critical care services are provided during an emergency department encounter?

How do you properly code same day surgeries and observation cases?

Must be 250 words in APA format with two cited sources.

Textbook information:
• Lame, J. & Young, G., A Guided Approach to Intermediate & Advanced Coding,
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nd edition. MyLab Health Professions with Pearson eText — Access Code Card.
ISBN 978-0-135-19079-1