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| Short Descr | ANESTH DX KNEE ARTHROSCOPY | Medium Descr | ANESTH DIAGNOSTIC ARTHROSCOPIC PROC KNEE JOINT | Long Descr | Anesthesia for diagnostic arthroscopic procedures of knee joint | 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) |
| 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 | QX | Crna service: with medical direction by a physician | QK | Medical direction of two, three, or four concurrent anesthesia procedures involving qualified individuals | QZ | Crna service: without medical direction by a physician | AA | Anesthesia services performed personally by anesthesiologist | QY | Medical direction of one certified registered nurse anesthetist (crna) by an anesthesiologist | AD | Medical supervision by a physician: more than four concurrent anesthesia procedures | 23 | Unusual anesthesia: occasionally, a procedure, which usually requires either no anesthesia or local anesthesia, because of unusual circumstances must be done under general anesthesia. this circumstance may be reported by adding modifier 23 to the procedure code of the basic service. | 93 | Synchronous telemedicine service rendered via telephone or other real-time interactive audio-only telecommunications system : synchronous telemedicine service is defined as a real-time interaction between a physician or other qualified health care professional and a patient who is located away at a distant site from the physician or other qualified health care professional. the totality of the communication of information exchanged between the physician or other qualified health care professional and the patient during the course of the synchronous telemedicine service must be of an amount and nature that is sufficient to meet the key components and/or requirements of the same service when rendered via a face-to-face interaction. | AQ | Physician providing a service in an unlisted health professional shortage area (hpsa) | GC | This service has been performed in part by a resident under the direction of a teaching physician | LT | Left side (used to identify procedures performed on the left side of the body) | P1 | A normal healthy patient | P2 | A patient with mild systemic disease | P3 | A patient with severe systemic disease | P4 | A patient with severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life | 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 | QS | Monitored anesthesia care service |
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| 2011-01-01 | Changed | Short description changed. |
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