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Billing => Billing => : cflorez October 23, 2019, 05:15:50 PM

: Consultation
: cflorez October 23, 2019, 05:15:50 PM

For an Oral Surgery office, can a Pediatric anesthesiologist bill for a pre op visit, even tho the referring physician bills for his
office visit (consultation)  in additional to the sedation he administers.

: Re: Consultation
: Michele October 24, 2019, 10:48:52 AM

I am not a certified coder but I thought that the pre op visit was part of the anesthesiology.  If there are extenuating circumstances for the need for a pre op visit that makes it separate from the procedure then it could be billed with an appropriate modifier.