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Qualifying Circumstances:

Keep 3 Tips in Mind Before Adding +99135 to Your Claim

Published on Thu May 12, 2022

Low blood pressure doesn’t automatically mean you report this code. Because no two anesthesia cases are alike, a group of add-on codes known as “qualifying circumstances” (or QC) codes describe situations that could impact the nature of anesthesia services provided. Let’s dig into one of those codes, +99135 (Anesthesia complicated by utilization of controlled hypotension (List separately in addition to [...]
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