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Reporting Anesthesia for GI Endoscopy
Published on Tue Oct 16, 2018
Question: We have a debate in our office regarding how to bill for anesthesia during gastroenterology endoscopy services. Some of our staff say to report a standard anesthesia code, others say to report something from the moderate sedation codes. Which is correct? The particular case I’m coding mentioned that the sedation plan was MAC; the anesthesiologist used 200 mg of [...]