Anesthesia Coding Alert
Daily Management
New Jersey Subscriber
Answer: We bill for daily management, 01996 (daily management of epidural or subarachnoid drug administration) if the epidural was not originally used to administer the anesthesia during the surgery. You can bill with 62311 (injection, single [not via indwelling catheter], not including neurolytic substances, with or without contrast [for either localization or epidurography], of diagnostic or therapeutic substance[s] [including anesthetic, antispasmodic, opioid, steroid, other solution], epidural or subarachnoid; lumbar, sacral) along with modifier -59 (distinct procedural service). Daily
management thereafter would be billed with 01996.
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