Anesthesia Coders Sourcebook 2017

Your Comprehensive Guide for Coding and Billing Anesthesia Services

Capture the encounter details you need for prompt, equitable reimbursement with TCI’s Anesthesia Coders Sourcebook 2017. This comprehensive user-friendly resource tackles the complexities of CPT, ICD-10-CM, and HCPCS coding to ensure your billing is accurate and bringing in the revenue you deserve.

Codes for moderate sedation bundled with epidurals, separation of ICD-10 codes for postprocedural hematoma and hemorrhage, the intricacies of assigning modifiers and diagnosis codes, and hundreds of CCI edits that bundle or unbundle familiar codes represent but a few of the changes to challenge coding for your anesthesia practice.

Master every challenge with real-word advice and best-in-class tips from TCI and industry experts:

• Nail down the ins and outs of general anesthesia and basic anesthesia coding
• Get the heads up on local and regional anesthesia, monitored anesthesia care, and more
• Conquer ICD-10 coding for vascular system, OB anesthesia, Z codes, and more
• Stay in charge of CPT modifiers
• Let our experts unravel HCPCS modifier dilemmas
• Clear up your confusion of time, base units, and multiple anesthesia services
• Get physical status modifiers right every time
• Grasp coding for preoperative anesthesia services
• Get clarification on the anesthesia care package
• Tackle coding and billing for multiple anesthesia services
• Calculate your reimbursement for anesthesia
• Get vital examples of Medicare’s 2017 conversion factors
• Take stock of the latest billing and documentation updates for anesthesia services
• Choose 00840 over 00944 for laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy
• Submit 00910 if anesthesiologist administers anesthesia for cystourethroscopy
• And more!