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Brush Up on Anesthesia Time Calculation Key Concepts

Published on Tue Jul 09, 2024

Question: We need help understanding minutes to units conversion. If payers want total minutes in the units field on the CMS 1500, how do you convert the base units? Would you assume one unit equals 15 minutes? Ohio Subscriber Answer: It’s important to recognize that anesthesia billing involves time units and base units, which are different. The time unit component of an [...]
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