CPT^® 01620, Under Anesthesia for Procedures on the Shoulder and Axilla

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 01620 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Anesthesia for Procedures on the Shoulder and Axilla.

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The provider performs anesthesia services for a patient undergoing any closed procedure to the humeral head and neck, sternoclavicular, acromioclavicular, and shoulder joints.

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SCLEROTHERYAPY CT GUIDED CODING HELP!

The op note does not state upper or lower humerus, so you will need to find out. If it's upper, use 01620. If it's lower, use 01730.... [ Read More ]

2016 Anesthesia PQRS

Yes, it seems if you use registry reporting you would use 4559F & 4255F, but I haven't had chance to review any articles describing how this revised measure is reported. It seems they did away with ... [ Read More ]

PQRS Measure #193

You would report G9363 as standalone G9363: Duration of monitored anesthesia care (MAC) or peripheral nerve block (PNB) without the use of general anesthesia during an applicable procedure [B][U]or g... [ Read More ]

Block for Knee Replacement

The only thing that came to my mind is that the examples they give is post op pain block when performed when the patient is having general anesthesia. They don't give other examples. AMA CPT Assistan... [ Read More ]

interscalene block

[b]CPT ASST Article[/b] Year: 2001 Issue: October Pages: 9 Title: Anesthesia and Postoperative Pain Management Body: Coding Clarification The following article builds on information orig... [ Read More ]

Anesthesia code

If the xrays indicate fractures to the head or the neck of the humerus it will be 01620. Anything lower will be 01730 mentioned by Mojo. You will need an anesthesia start and stop time. You will need... [ Read More ]

Anesthesia code

99148-99150 codes are used when the provider administered the moderate sedation but did not perform the procedure (fracture care, endo). Hopefully, someone who specializes in anesthesia has a definite... [ Read More ]

Anesthesia code

ok just because I am not very good at coding anesthesia. Could I use 01620 for this. The CRNA did do a moderate conscious sedation record but I always thought that the 99149 sedation codes were only... [ Read More ]

Toradol/J1885

Where was the IV placed in the anesthesia, where it sounds like the toradol was also admistered thru. The examples below from CPT Assistant describe nerve blocks or epidurals. In the NCCI policy manua... [ Read More ]

Moderate conscious sedation

Are you sure this was not Monitored Anesthesia Care? If the anesthesia provider fully documented an anesthesia service (i.e. pre-anes evaluation/intra-operative monitoring...) then this might be bil... [ Read More ]

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