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Follow Payer Guidelines for Reporting Bilateral Femoral Nerve Block

Published on Fri Jul 14, 2017

Question: Our anesthesiologist was present during a bilateral knee replacement surgery. We coded 01402 for the anesthesiol­ogist’s service. The surgeon also asked that the anesthe­siologist administer [...]
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