TTcpc
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I am still fairly new to anesthesia and need some advice on this, my gut is telling me the advice that I got here at work is not right.
74 y.o. with multiple high risk factors (severe heart disease/issues, kidney, and epilepsy difficulties) undergoes a IM nail to (L) hip. Due to medical issues the patient is not sedated, but given a continuous epidural. I have requested more info from the anesthesiologist as I cannot read the medication used in the epidural.
Am I correct in thinking since the patient was not sedated, that I would bill the correct CPT code for the continuous epidural (once I find out the medication used) and not the ASA code? I was told to just use the ASA code since the epidural was the method of anesthesia, but my gut says not so.
Any advice would be appreciated.
74 y.o. with multiple high risk factors (severe heart disease/issues, kidney, and epilepsy difficulties) undergoes a IM nail to (L) hip. Due to medical issues the patient is not sedated, but given a continuous epidural. I have requested more info from the anesthesiologist as I cannot read the medication used in the epidural.
Am I correct in thinking since the patient was not sedated, that I would bill the correct CPT code for the continuous epidural (once I find out the medication used) and not the ASA code? I was told to just use the ASA code since the epidural was the method of anesthesia, but my gut says not so.
Any advice would be appreciated.