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4 Vital Items You Don't Want to Miss In the Anesthesia Record

Published on Thu Apr 12, 2012

Extra units for reimbursement might be lurking in places other than the charge ticket. Anesthesia coders have an advantage over co-workers in other specialties: you have more resources when it's time to comb through charts for all the information you need. Use that access to the anesthesia record, charge ticket, and surgical report to track down every detail that might help your claim. Unique challenge: "So many practices use a charge ticket in addition to the anesthesia record," points out Cindy Hinton, CPC, CCP, CHCC, owner of Advanced Coding Solutions in Franklin, Tenn. "Many times, discrepancies occur when information is transferred from the anesthesia record to the charge ticket. It's important to compare the charge ticket to the anesthesia record, to make sure all key components are accounted for." Read on for key pieces of information Hinton and Diane Crosthwaite, CPC, CANPC, coding manager with abeo in Pasadena, Cal., [...]
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