Anesthesia coders must carefully review medical records to determine appropriate billable elements, such as a patient’s ASA physical status classification, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants ...

CMS has released new guidance on two different coding modifiers, according to an AGA eDigest report. CMS has expanded the range of service to which the PT modifier refers to include lower GI/endoscopy ...

Here are the anesthesia claims modifiers and guidance for when to report them, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service’s Medicare Claims Processing Manual.

The fourth problem addressed in ASC anesthesia billing would be: use correct modifiers. Because most knee, shoulder, elbow, etc. diagnostic arthroscopy procedures are done now in ASCs, the request for ...