AMA CPT® Assistant - 2017 Issue 5 (May)

Medicine: Moderate (Conscious) Sedation (Q&A) (May 2017)

May 2017 page 10 Medicine: Moderate (Conscious) Sedation Question: After a procedure has been completed, the physician dictates his operative/procedure report without adding the postservice time to the intraservice time he spent supervising moderate sedation. Is this the correct usage of codes 99151 and 99152? Answer: Yes, the time spent on postservice activities that are required for moderate sedation are not included when calculating time and selecting the appropriate moderate sedation codes (99151, 99152, 99153, 99155, 99156, 99157). According to the Moderate (Conscious) Sedation subsection guidelines in the CPT® 2017code set, the following components of postservice work are not...

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