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    Wiki Hand-and-Wrist Procedures performed in an Office-Based Surgical Suite (OBSS)

    Hand-and-wrist procedures lend themselves to WALANT (Wide Awake Local Anesthesia with No Tourniquet) where the surgeon can communicate with an awake patient and ask them to move their fingers during the operation to obtain immediate feedback. Even though there are dozens of peer-reviewed...
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    • ectr fac pe rvus in-office endoscopic carpal tunnel release ioectr non fac pe rvus obs obss (office-based surgical suite) office-based-surgery reimbursement orthopedics site-of-service differential (sosd)
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    • Forum: Orthopaedics
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    Wiki Negotiating for office overhead when Site of Service Differential (SOSD) = zero?

    Does anyone have any experience with contract negotiations for surgical procedures, which are typically performed in a facility (SOSD=0), and are now performed in an OBSS (Office-Based Surgical Suite)? The POS is now 11. This is growing in popularity in orthopedics (hand and wrist), podiatry...
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    • ambulatory surgery center (asc) carve-out negotiation fac pe rvus non-fac pe rvus office-based surgery reimbursement office-based surgical suite (obss) orthopedics overhead reimbursement sosd (site-of-service differential) walant
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: General Discussion
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    Wiki WALANT: (Wide Awake Local Anesthesia with No Tourniquet)

    Is anyone working with surgeons using WALANT? Note that this is not a specific CPT code but how you perform a host of procedures. The most common are hand and wrist procedures such as: carpal tunnel release, tendon repair and removal of masses. The issue is not the CPT code but where the surgery...
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    • fac pe rvus in-office endoscopic carpal tunnel release ioectr non-fac pe rvus: practice expense rvus obs office-based-surgery reimbursement site-of-service differential (sosd) walant
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    • Forum: Billing/Reimbursement
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