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Hi everyone...I do charge entry anesthesia charges (MAC) for GI same day procedures. And I was instructed that anesthesia charges can not be submitted until the GI procedure was posted. In my case someone else post the procedure for our groups. Now someone who isn't a coder is telling me that you can submit the anesthesia charge before the procedure. The reason was that the diagnosis codes in the anesthesia charge has to match up to the procedure code. Is she right?... and is there somewhere that states one or the other that we can keep on file for other anesthesia charge entry...I couldn't find anything in Novitas under NJ...Thanks
diagnosis codes, diagnosis coding