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Conscioous Sedation - Endotracheal intubation

Can Conscious sedation be coded with endotracheal intubation or would this be unbundling? I have looked in my CCI edits book however it is a 2004 version and conscious sedation is not included in the endotracheal intubation so this can be coded as 31500 and 99143-99149 which every CS code is appropriate correct????

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endotrac w/ cons sedation

That coding combination does not unbundle.

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