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Does anybody know what the coding guidelines would be for a pediatric critical care hospitalist (physician) performing deep sedation would be? The major payer source, of course, is Medicaid. Since he is not an anesthesiologist (is a Pediatric Intensivist), should he be coding from the 00100-01999 series or 99143-99150? The argument presented is that because they don't have specific codes for deep sedation, and the guidelines in the 99143-99150 specifically state that those codes are not used for deep sedation, that the only choice is monitored anesthesia care 00100-01999. Thanks so much for anybody's help with this!