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Official Description

Anesthesia for thoracotomy procedures involving lungs, pleura, diaphragm, and mediastinum (including surgical thoracoscopy); pulmonary resection with thoracoplasty

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Short Descr ANESTH LUNG CHEST WALL SURG
Medium Descr ANES THORACOTOMY & THORACOSCOPY PULMONARY RESC
Long Descr Anesthesia for thoracotomy procedures involving lungs, pleura, diaphragm, and mediastinum (including surgical thoracoscopy); pulmonary resection with thoracoplasty
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 Inpatient Procedures, not paid under OPPS
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)
AA Anesthesia services performed personally by anesthesiologist
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
P4 A patient with severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life
Q1 Routine clinical service provided in a clinical research study that is in an approved clinical research study
QK Medical direction of two, three, or four concurrent anesthesia procedures involving qualified individuals
QS Monitored anesthesia care service
QX Crna service: with medical direction by a physician
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
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2013-01-01 Changed Medium Descriptor changed.
2011-01-01 Changed Short description changed.
Pre-1990 Added Code added.
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