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Medically Directed CRNA During Retrobulbar Blocks

Published on Thu Apr 20, 2017

Question: When our patients have cataract procedures, the anesthesiologist administers the eye block and the CRNA does the MAC. I've been billing the time for the eye blocks and not the 67500 code separately since it is inclusive to the MAC. I've been billing the MAC for these procedures using the Q modifiers and modifier AA for the eye block since [...]
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