Mind Your P Modifiers or Leave Money on the Table
Have your documentation ready for reporting level P4 and higher.
Physical status modifiers, also referred to as P modifiers, PS modifiers, ASAs or ASA P codes, are an important element of your anesthesia coding. If you don’t use them correctly,...
Categories: 01953, ASA, Anesthesiologist, Hot Coding Topics, P, P codes, P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, PS, anesthesia, modifier Tags: Acs, Aetna, American Society Of Anesthesiologists, American Society Of Anesthesiologists Asa, Amp, Anesthesia Service, Asas, Auditing, Complexity, compliance, Contracts, cpc, Element, Level P4, medicare, Medicare Patients, Modifiers, Private Payers, Reimbursement Opportunities, Systemic Disease
Burn Coding: Calculate Total Body Surface Area (TBSA)
Investigate your physician’s documentation to determine the body area percentage actually debrided. Question: My anesthesiologist administered anesthesia for a burn excision on the leg of a middle-aged adult male, but he didn’t give clear notes on the patient’s affected body surface area. How do I code for this? Kansas Subscriber Answer: You will start by coding 01952 (Anesthesia [...] Related articles:
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Categories: 01951, 01952, 01953, 16000, Anesthesiologist, Coding Challenge, TBSA, add-on, anterior, arm, body surface, burn, burn area, documentation, front trunk, head, leg, percent, posterior, rule of nines, surgeon, total body surface area Tags: Adult Male, Amp, anesthesia, Body Surface Area, Burn Victim, Debridement, Doctors, Excision, Extent, Front 9, Genitals, Physicians, Rear Trunk, rule of nines, Sherlock Holmes, Skin Grafting, TBSA, Third Degree Burn, total body surface area, Wounds