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Reader Question:

Reporting ASC as the Place of Service

Published on Mon Oct 11, 2004

Question: Our physicians provide anesthesia for surgeries being performed in an office with three operating rooms. Although this is still a physician office, one coder says that we could report "ambulatory surgical center" as the place of service (because of the three ORs) instead of "office." Is this right?

Oregon Subscriber Answer: The descriptor for Place of Service 24 (Ambulatory surgical center) is: a freestanding facility, other than a physician's office, where surgical and diagnostic services are provided on an ambulatory basis. There is more to being an ambulatory surgery center than the number of ORs you have. If it is an office, that's the location you bill (as Place of Service 11, Office) unless the facility is accredited and licensed as an ASC.
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