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Base Anesthesia Billing on Times Recorded in the Record

Published on Wed Apr 10, 2024

Question: I’m an anesthesia coder and ran across a situation that no one at my practice has encountered before. We code a capped charge for labor epidural patients. Recently, there was a case where the anesthesiologist inserted the epidural and pulled it out at 2:31 a.m. when blood was aspirated from the catheter. The baby was delivered at 3:42 a.m. Do [...]
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