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New Code for Abortion Anesthesia

Published on Fri Mar 01, 2002

Test your coding knowledge.  Determine how you would code this situation before looking at the box below for the answer.
Question: Does the new code 01964 (Anesthesia for; abortion procedures) apply to procedures for "missed abortions"? When a surgeon performs a dilation and evacuation, I have always reported the anesthesia with 00940 (Anesthesia for vaginal procedures [including biopsy of labia, vagina, cervix or endometrium]; not otherwise specified). Will this change?

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