Anesthesia Guidelines
Codes 00100-01999 are used for coding for what type of provider
What is an anesthesiologist?
Modifier that represents medical direction of 2, 3 or 4 concurrent cases by anesthesiologist
What is modifier QK?
The four major types of radiologic guidance
Category of codes representing groups of tests
What are panel codes?
C codes
What are cancer codes?
These are the three types of anesthesia
What is regional, general and MAC (monitored anesthesia care)?
Anesthesia for patient of extreme age, younger than 1 year and older than 70
What is +99100?
The type of radiology that uses sound waves to visualize images
What is ultrasound?
Category of codes to monitor clinical response of a drug
What are therapeutic drug assays?
M codes in reference to fractures
What are pathologic fractures?
The equation for billing a non-Medicare anesthesia payment
Modifier for MAC for deep, complex, complicated or markedly invasive surgical procedure
What is modifier G8?
This type of mammogram is used when patient is presenting with family history of breast cancer and no signs/symptoms
What is screening mammogram?
Category of codes to test for presence of antigens/antibodies
What are Immunology codes?
This term is used when patient takes drug correctly as prescribed but presents with a problem
What is an adverse effect?
Cardiopulmonary bypass in documentation is synonymous with this phrase in a CPT code descriptor
What is "with pump oxygentator?"
Anesthesia for radical resection for open procedure on lower leg
What is 01482?
This type of radiologic category involves radiopharmaceuticals
What is nuclear medicine?
What is Surgical Pathology?
TBSA
What is total body surface area?
Medicare payment does not care about these two modifying factor categories
What is physical status modifiers and qualifying circumstances?
Anesthesia for cholecystectomy, laparoscopic
What is 00790?
These are the four types of radiation oncology treatment deliveries
What are stereotactic, radiation, neutron beam and proton beam treatment deliveries?
Category of codes to test for genetic susceptibility of acquiring cystic fibrosis
What is Molecular Pathology?
Coding a keloid that resulted from a burn 3 months ago is an example of this
What is a sequela?