According to Lolita M. Jones, RHIA, CCS, a consultant specializing in ASC and hospital outpatient coding, billing, reimbursement and operations, when patients come in for arthroscopic shoulder surgery ...

In some anesthesia cases, a V code could be the only accurate primary diagnosis code. Pre-Op pain medications can pose another obstacle in billing the outpatient surgery anesthesia. For example, CPT ...

4. Synvisc knee injections. There was a recent coding change in 2010 for synvisc knee injections with the J7325 code. “This code is to be used for synvisc injections regardless of whether the ...

Also, use your Anesthesia Coding Crosswalk. If at any time you are uncertain as to what ASA code to use, such as when an EGD and colonoscopy are performed at the same session, verify the surgery code ...