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Check Your Anesthesia Coding Knowledge for These Gastroenterology Procedures

Published on Thu Apr 30, 2026

Hint: Rely on the ERCP-specific code to capture anesthesia provided during that procedure. Coding anesthesia services for gastroenterology-led procedures can be murky due to multiple procedures and comorbid conditions. Check out these scenarios and see how your coding knowledge stacks up. Sometimes You Need to Use a “Not Otherwise Specified” CPT® Code Scenario: A 56-year-old patient presents for an esophagogastroduodenoscopy [...]
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