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Turn to These Choices for Moderate Sedation Services

Published on Thu Mar 17, 2016

Watch the time and who administers the sedation. CPT® 2016 includes six codes for moderate sedation; they are divided into two code families based on time and who provides the sedation in relation to who performs the service. Your options are: 99143 – Moderate sedation services (other than those services described by codes 00100-01999) provided by the same physician or [...]
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