Anesthesia coders must carefully review medical records to determine appropriate billable elements, such as a patient’s ASA physical status classification, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants ...

The pre, intra and postoperative planning is patient specific, can be complex, and is known as the perioperative plan.

Here are the anesthesia claims modifiers and guidance for when to report them, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service’s Medicare Claims Processing Manual.

Unlike most specialties, anesthesia billing is time-based. Payers differ in how they calculate time units — Medicare uses decimals, while some commercial plans round to whole numbers — creating added ...