Anesthesia billing services – BCBS

Anesthesia Payment & Billing Information – BCBSTime and Points Eligible Anesthesia Procedures Defined HMO Blue Texas and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas have determined that certain anesthesia procedures will be reimbursed on time and points methodology. Procedures that are not included on the Anesthesia Time & Points Eligible List will not be reimbursed ... Read More

Anesthesia billing services – BCBS

Anesthesia Payment & Billing Information – BCBSTime and Points Eligible Anesthesia Procedures Defined HMO Blue Texas and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas have determined that certain anesthesia procedures will be reimbursed on time and points methodology. Procedures that are not included on the Anesthesia Time & Points Eligible List will not be reimbursed ... Read More

Ventilator Management anesthesia service payment from BCBS

Anesthesia Payment & Billing Information – BCBS Ventilator Management in Conjunction with Anesthesia Services 94656 and 94657: Ventilation management billed on the same day as an anesthesia procedure is part of the global anesthesia service for the first 24 hours after anesthesia induction and therefore it is not billable. If procedure code 94656 is reported ... Read More

how BCBS calculate payment for Aneshthesia billing?

Anesthesia Payment & Billing Information – BCBS Payment Calculation Information Time Units  : Time units will be determined by using the total time in minutes actually spent performing the procedure. Fifteen minutes is equivalent to one (1) time unit. Time units will be rounded to the tenth. Therefore, if the procedure lasted 49 minutes, the ... Read More

Four Ways to Bill Anesthesia for One-Lung Ventilation

Anesthesia providers sometimes provide one-lung ventilation for procedures when the surgeon needs a quiet field to operate on, as with lung resection, thoracic aortic repair and some thoracic vertebrae or gastric surgeries. Although an ASA code exists for one-lung ventilation, the new code is not in CPT, so providers are finding that reimbursement is difficult ... Read More

Standard Anesthesia Coding

1. Principles of Medicare coding for anesthesia services involving administration of anesthesia are reported by the use of the anesthesia five-digit CPT procedure codes (00100-01860). These codes specify “Anesthesia for” followed by a general area of surgical intervention. Subsequent CPT codes (01905-01933) are unique to anesthesia for interventional radiology. SeveralCPT codes (01990-01999) describe miscellaneous anesthesia ... Read More

Anethesia billing – Introduction

Anesthesia care conventionally includes all services associated with the administration of analgesia/anesthesia, provided by an anesthesiologist and/or certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA)1 to a patient undergoing a surgical or other invasive procedure so that intervention can be undertaken. This may involve local, regional, epidural, general anesthesia ormonitored anesthesia care (MAC), and usually involves administration of ... Read More