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Warm Up to Measure 193 for PQRI Credit

Published on Tue Feb 02, 2010

If your anesthesiologist's service can meet 3 criteria, you could get a bonus. When your anesthesiologist uses active warming to prevent hypothermia in a patient after surgery, you should already be familiar with codes such as 4250F (Active warming used intraoperatively for the purpose of maintaining normothermia, OR at least 1 body temperature equal to or greater than 36 degrees Centigrade (or 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit) recorded within the 30 minutes immediately before or the 15 minutes immediately after anesthesia end time [CRIT]). If your practice is participating in PQRI, knowing how to report the perioperative temperature warming management codes could net you a bonus. Watch out: If your anesthesiologist participates in PQRI starting in July and reports on measure 193, he will also need to report on measure 76 if he sees more than eight Medicare patients during the six-month period who have a condition that apply to measure 76. [...]
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