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Correct Calculations Are Your Ticket to Field Avoidance Pay

Published on Thu Jun 11, 2015

Know when your payers will allow you to add extra units. When your anesthesiologist does not have direct access to the patient’s face (or airway) because of the patient’s position during a procedure, you would call this “field avoidance.” Field avoidance makes the procedure more complicated for the anesthesiologist, so she’s able to earn higher reimbursement. By following three simple [...]
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