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June 20, 2012

5010 Tip Of The Day - Anesthesia Claims

Did you know, in 5010, you must report anesthesia services in minutes rather than units if the procedure code does not define a specific time period? However, if the procedure code has minutes in its description, then you can continue to report those charges in units.

When you need to manually calculate the time period, you can only use minutes for the time measurement. For example, if the total time of anesthesia services is one hour and thirty minutes, services should be submitted as 90 minutes.

Anesthesia providers should verify that their systems can manage this change.

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