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Make Every Minute Count When Determining Medical Direction vs. Supervision

Published on Fri Jun 10, 2022

Hint: Keep all your clocks in sync to ensure your times match. When providing anesthesia services, anesthesiologists have three options for their involvement in a particular case: personally perform, medically supervise, or medically direct. Cases that can be categorized as personally performed are the easiest to recognize and the simplest to report. This means the anesthesiologist administered the anesthesia and [...]
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