tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2006 Issue 2

Wake Up and Learn Your New CS Codes

You-ll have to document patient age and procedure time Revisions in CPT 2006 mean you will now have the option of reporting conscious sedation (CS) if your physician provides the sedation service and a different physician provides the primary service--but you will have to be extra precise when documenting time. Time Is Now a Critical Factor For 2006, you-ll find that CPT has deleted 99141-99142 and now contains six new codes to describe conscious (or moderate) sedation. CPT divides the codes into two groups based on whether the same physician provides CS and performs the procedure (99143-99145), or whether...

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