Reader Questions: No Way Around Carrier's Standby Policy

Article Overview

This article addresses a reader question about whether physician time spent monitoring a patient during a procedure can be reimbursed when a payer’s policy does not allow standby billing. It is useful for anesthesiology, hospital billing, and coding professionals who need to understand how standby services are treated under Medicare-related claims processing, CCI edits, and same-day service scenarios. The article focuses on the general coding and payment context surrounding standby services rather than presenting a broad clinical discussion.