AMA CPT® Assistant - 2017 Issue 12 (December)

Anesthesia for Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures (December 2017)

December 2017 pages 8-11 Anesthesia for Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures In the 2016 Final Rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) identified codes 00740, Anesthesia for upper gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures, endoscope introduced proximal to duodenum, and 00810, Anesthesia for lower intestinal endoscopic procedures, endoscope introduced distal to duodenum, as potentially misvalued based on reporting volume, and indicated that the codes warranted re-review by the AMA/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC). RUC determined that the vignettes for these codes, which are used for anesthesia furnished in conjunction with upper and lower gastrointestinal (GI) procedures, respectively, did not...

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