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Qualifying Circumstances:

Brush Up on 4 Tips Before Reporting +99140 Emergency

Published on Thu Oct 17, 2013

Communicating with your provider is your best first step. Including qualifying circumstances (QC) codes to your anesthesia claim adds base units to your total calculation, which means you want to report them whenever appropriate. Read on for the latest on how to correctly assess whether to submit +99140 (Anesthesia complicated by emergency conditions [specify] [List separately in addition to code [...]
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