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Moderate Sedation for Epidural Cath Placement

Published on Thu Sep 12, 2013

Question: My anesthesiologist completed an epidural catheter implantation under moderate sedation and will be managing it for several days. How can we bill this service?
New Hampshire Subscriber Answer: You have two code choices for the catheter placement, depending on where the anesthesiologist placed the epidural:

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