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What Constitutes 'Short Duration' for Medical Direction Claims?

Published on Mon Apr 13, 2020

See if your anesthesiologist’s service falls in these categories. Each time you file a claim for an anesthesiologist, you must denote whether the case was medically directed or medically supervised, based on how many concurrent cases the provider was involved with. The anesthesiologist should not normally provide services to other patients while medically directing a certified registered nurse practitioner (CRNA) [...]
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