Question | Answer |
What is the 1st of 3 basic administration of services for anesthesia? | Routine preoperative and postoperative visits to evaluate the patient for the planned anesthesia and monitor the patients post-surgery recovery from anesthesia. |
What is the 2nd of 3 basic administration of services for anesthesia? | Administration of fluids and/or blood during the period of anesthesia care. |
What is the 3rd basic administration of services for anesthesia? | Interpretation of noninvasive monitoring such as electrocardiography (ECG), body temperature, capnography (blood carbon dioxide concentration) and mass spectrometry. |
Who administers the basic anesthesia administration services ? | They are provided by, or under the responsible supervision of:
a Physician |
How should invasive forms of monitoring (intra-arterial, central venous,& pulmonary artery catheters) be reported? | separately from the basic anesthesia administration services |
You should code the appropriate CPT code/modifier/qualifying circumstances in the anesthesia section of the CPT code book for anesthesia services unless... | A particular payer does not accept CPT anesthesia codes. |
What do you code instead of the anesthesia code? | Codes from the Surgery section of the CPT Code-book would be used to report anesthesia services. |
What should you do if general anesthesia is administered along with an epidural or a nerve blocking injection to provide postoperative analgesia? | Code them in addition to the anesthesia code because they are separate and distinct services. |
Does it matter if the block procedure occurred preoperatively, postoperatively, or during the procedure in order to use the code as an addition to the anesthesia code? | No |
How do you code multiple procedures performed during a single anesthetic administration? | Code only the anesthesia procedure code for the most complex service as well as the total time for all procedures. |
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Moderate (conscious) sedation is an anesthesia service. | False |
What code range would you report for Moderate (Conscious) Sedation provided by the physician also performing the service for which conscious sedation is needed? | 99143-99145 |