Wiki Billing Anesthesia

[susiekay]

If you have a surgical suite within your office but you aren't ASC certified, can you bill for the anesthesia and bill with a 11 POS?

Thanks, Sue

 

[mcnaryk]

If you have a surgical suite within your office but you aren't ASC certified, can you bill for the anesthesia and bill with a 11 POS?

Thanks, Sue

Hi Sue-
When you say "bill for the anesthesia"-are you referring to moderate sedation or is your provider actually putting the patients under general anesthesia? If you are just using moderate or conscious sedation, I think you can report that using 99143-99145. CPT guidelines state not to use 99148-99150 (where another provider is providing the sedation, and your provider is doing the procedure itself) in the non-facility setting with the codes in Appendix G. AS far as being non-ASC certified, I would take 2 or 3 of your top payers and check with them-I really don't know about that. Good luck!