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Official Description

Anesthesia for procedures on salivary glands, including biopsy

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Short Descr ANESTH SALIVARY GLAND
Medium Descr ANESTHESIA SALIVARY GLANDS WITH BIOPSY
Long Descr Anesthesia for procedures on salivary glands, including biopsy
Status Code Anesthesia Service
Global Days XXX - Global Concept Does Not Apply
PC/TC Indicator (26, TC) 9 - Not Applicable
Multiple Procedures (51) 9 - Concept does not apply.
Bilateral Surgery (50) 9 - Concept does not apply.
Physician Supervisions 09 - Concept does not apply.
Assistant Surgeon (80, 82) 9 - Concept does not apply.
Co-Surgeons (62) 9 - Concept does not apply.
Team Surgery (66) 9 - Concept does not apply.
Diagnostic Imaging Family 99 - Concept Does Not Apply
APC Status Indicator Items and Services Packaged into APC Rates
Type of Service (TOS) 7 - Anesthesia
Berenson-Eggers TOS (BETOS) P0 - Anesthesia
MUE Not applicable/unspecified.
CCS Clinical Classification 232 - Anesthesia

This is a primary code that can be used with these additional add-on codes.

0887T New Code for 2024 Add On Code MPFS Status: Carrier Priced APC N ASC N1 End-tidal control of inhaled anesthetic agents and oxygen to assist anesthesia care delivery (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure)
QK Medical direction of two, three, or four concurrent anesthesia procedures involving qualified individuals
QX Crna service: with medical direction by a physician
AA Anesthesia services performed personally by anesthesiologist
QZ Crna service: without medical direction by a physician
X4 Episodic/focused services: for reporting services by clinicians who provide focused care on particular types of treatment limited to a defined period and circumstance; the patient has a problem, acute or chronic, that will be treated with surgery, radiation, or some other type of generally time-limited intervention; reporting clinician service examples include but are not limited to, the orthopedic surgeon performing a knee replacement and seeing the patient through the postoperative period
GC This service has been performed in part by a resident under the direction of a teaching physician
P3 A patient with severe systemic disease
P2 A patient with mild systemic disease
QS Monitored anesthesia care service
53 Discontinued procedure: under certain circumstances, the physician or other qualified health care professional may elect to terminate a surgical or diagnostic procedure. due to extenuating circumstances or those that threaten the well being of the patient, it may be necessary to indicate that a surgical or diagnostic procedure was started but discontinued. this circumstance may be reported by adding modifier 53 to the code reported by the individual for the discontinued procedure. note: this modifier is not used to report the elective cancellation of a procedure prior to the patient's anesthesia induction and/or surgical preparation in the operating suite. for outpatient hospital/ambulatory surgery center (asc) reporting of a previously scheduled procedure/service that is partially reduced or cancelled as a result of extenuating circumstances or those that threaten the well being of the patient prior to or after administration of anesthesia, see modifiers 73 and 74 (see modifiers approved for asc hospital outpatient use).
AD Medical supervision by a physician: more than four concurrent anesthesia procedures
AQ Physician providing a service in an unlisted health professional shortage area (hpsa)
CR Catastrophe/disaster related
G8 Monitored anesthesia care (mac) for deep complex, complicated, or markedly invasive surgical procedure
GW Service not related to the hospice patient's terminal condition
LT Left side (used to identify procedures performed on the left side of the body)
P1 A normal healthy patient
P4 A patient with severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life
P5 A moribund patient who is not expected to survive without the operation
Q1 Routine clinical service provided in a clinical research study that is in an approved clinical research study
Q6 Service furnished under a fee-for-time compensation arrangement by a substitute physician or by a substitute physical therapist furnishing outpatient physical therapy services in a health professional shortage area, a medically underserved area, or a rural area
QY Medical direction of one certified registered nurse anesthetist (crna) by an anesthesiologist
X5 Diagnostic services requested by another clinician: for reporting services by a clinician who furnishes care to the patient only as requested by another clinician or subsequent and related services requested by another clinician; this modifier is reported for patient relationships that may not be adequately captured by the above alternative categories; reporting clinician service examples include but are not limited to, the radiologist's interpretation of an imaging study requested by another clinician
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2011-01-01 Changed Short description changed.
Pre-1990 Added Code added.
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