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meganbruce

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Our office experienced rolling black outs in Feb. One on my physicians had a patient in the OR, under anesthesia, when all of the sudden, the power went out. The procedure had to be discontinued. He did perform the surgery 2 days later, successfully.

Can he bill the procedure code with a modifier 53? I know you can bill this if something like irregular heart beat starts or something to that effect, but I'm not sure about power outages.
 
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I don't see why not. I would send the OP note with it, hopefully it explained what had happened. What did anesthesia do? Are they billing?
 
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