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Follow 3 Tips Before Adding +99135 to Your Claim

Published on Mon May 14, 2018

Good documentation is especially key. The anesthesia section of CPT® includes four add-on codes that represent special circumstances that can affect how the anesthesiologist or CRNA provides service. Some, such as +99100 (Anesthesia for patient of extreme age, younger than 1 year and older than 70 [List separately in addition to code for primary anesthesia procedure]) are easily understood because [...]
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