Reader Questions:
Tap Into TAP Smarts
Published on Mon Mar 15, 2021
Question: What is a TAP catheter, and how do you report it on a claim? Hawaii Subscriber Answer: Providers sometime use a transverses abdominis plane (TAP) catheter as an alternative to epidural analgesia after upper abdominal surgery. Before coding for a TAP block, you will need to know whether the catheter was placed unilaterally (one side) or bilaterally (two sides), [...]