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Published on Thu Jan 08, 2009
Compare your solutions to those of our expert coders. How did you do? It always pays to keep up with the trickier aspects of neurology coding, so dive in and check these answers to those you came up with. Continuous Billable if not for Surgery Solution 1: True. If the services are provided by your anesthesiologist, as long as the continuous infusion is not used as the mode of anesthesia for the surgery, the pain management procedure should be separately billable, says Pamela Linton, CPC, anesthesiology coding specialist with Medical Management Professionals in Chattanooga, Tenn. "For dates of services in 2008, the two days of rounds afterward are not separately billable, as the procedure code 64448 has a 10-day global period," Lin-ton adds.-- If the catheter for the femoral block was inserted at the time of surgery for post-operative pain management, you should bill it out as 64448 (Injection, anesthetic [...]
