tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 1999 Issue 3

Correctly Code for Conscious Sedation in the ED

When performing delicate and painful procedures on children, the elderly, and some other adults in special situations, ED clinicians often employ a service known as ?conscious sedation? to facilitate the performance of the procedure with a minimum of discomfort to the patient and the physician.For example, a parent brings in a young child with a facial laceration requiring several stitches. Certainly, an analgesic will be given so that the child won?t feel the pain of the sutures; but in many cases, the physician will also want the child to be sedated so that he or she won...

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