tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2006 Issue 2

Want the Facts on Conscious Sedation? Get Them Here

Be sure to bundle CS to all procedures in Appendix G CPT 2006 includes a major overhaul of conscious (or moderate) sedation (CS) codes, but the guidelines for these services are still a bit tricky. Read on to unravel the riddle of when your surgeon can report CS separately. Targets Tell You Not to Report CS If you see a procedure code in the CPT manual with a -dot inside a circle- (which looks a lot like a target -bull's eye-) next to it, you-ll know that you shouldn't report CS separately with that procedure, says Michael A. Granovsky...

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