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Wiki Can anesthesiologist bill for critical care?

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chaveje

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Here is the senario. The patient is in for a repeat c-section and starts to hemorrage. The baby is delivered by 2 OB-GYN Dr's and the patient had a hysterectomy. My anesthesologist wants to bill 99291 and 99292 for her services. My confusion is that there are 2 other Dr's there. Would it be appropriate for the anesthesologist to bill critical care?
I have never had an anesthesologist bill for critical care.
 
Those are E/M services and this would not be appropriate. The primary doctor would be billing those service. You doctor should just bill for the measures she took, if any.
 
That "critical care" portion would be supplied in your time spent supervising the patient and in any additional add-on codes or procedures reported concurrently.

While Anesthesia can offer critical care services, that's unlikely in the OR.
 
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