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Check Even the Small Details Before Filing Your Claims

Published on Tue Jan 14, 2020

Positions, approaches, and more can make big differences. Every anesthesia coder knows that CPT® anesthesia codes are based on anatomic location and that each code can represent numerous surgical procedures. Because of this, verifying specific details such as procedure location and surgical approach can make all the difference in reporting a code such as 00600 (Anesthesia for procedures on cervical spine [...]
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