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Check Your Knowledge of Anesthesia Billing Myths

Published on Fri Aug 29, 2025

Don’t try to add extra time at the beginning — or the end! Anesthesia can involve a lot of complex coding, and myths can generate in complicated situations. See if your anesthesia coding is based on truth or legend with these commonly believed myths. Myth 1: Anesthesia start time (AST) cannot start until you roll through the doors of the [...]
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