Anesthesia Coding Alert

These add-on codes help better explain the circumstances.

Anesthesia codes +99100-+99140 are add-on codes that describe circumstances that significantly affect your anesthesia provider’s service. Report these codes in addition to the applicable anesthesia code; and remember, you can submit more than one qualifying circumstances code on a claim, if applicable.

The options are:

• +99100 (Anesthesia for patient of extreme age, younger than 1 year and older than 70 (List separately in addition to code for primary anesthesia procedure))
• +99116 (Anesthesia complicated by utilization of total body hypothermia (List separately in addition to code for primary anesthesia procedure))
• +99135 (Anesthesia complicated by utilization of controlled hypotension (List separately in addition to code for primary anesthesia procedure))
• +99140 (Anesthesia complicated by emergency conditions (specify) (List separately in addition to code for primary anesthesia procedure).