Anesthesia Coding Alert
Pool Your Top Tools
Published on Fri Feb 01, 2002
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Anesthesia Coding Alert
- New Ob-Anesthesia Codes:
Expand Reimbursement with More Precision
One of the biggest changes to the anesthesia section of CPT Codes for 2002 was [...] - Pain Management:
Five Successful Treatment Options for Chronic Pain
Millions of Americans suffer chronic pain due to fibromyalgia, reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), unsuccessful back [...] - You Be the Coder:
Lumbar Puncture and EEG
Test your coding knowledge. Determine how you would code this situation before looking at the [...] - Ring in the New Year with New Resources
Although coding resources abound, anesthesia coding tools sometimes seem scarce. In addition to purchasing CPT, [...] - Pool Your Top Tools
If you have a favorite resource not listed here that youd like to share with [...] - News Brief:
Medicare Adopts Specialty Designation for Pain Management
Effective Jan. 1, 2002, CMS recognizes a specialty designation for pain management physicians. Although Medicares [...] - Reader Question:
Testing an AICD
Question: Our anesthesia team often goes to the cath lab to test an AICD (automatic [...] - Reader Question:
ACL Surgery
Question: Which CPT Codes and corresponding anesthesia codes should I use for anterior cruciate ligament [...] - Reader Question:
Dilation and Evacuation
Question: Which anesthesia code is best for a procedure described as dilation and evacuation? The [...] - Reader Question:
Pain Management Nerve Blocks
Question: The anesthesiologist who performs nerve blocks for pain management says I should use 27096 [...]
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