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Question 91

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For anesthesia services, time ends when:

A) The anesthesiologist is no longer attending the patient
B) The patient's surgical procedure has ended
C) The anesthesiologist determines the patient is successfully under anesthesia
D) The surgeon is no longer attending the patient

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Question 92

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The main term for anesthesia services in the CPT manual is:

A) Sometimes the body region, sometimes the type of anesthesia given
B) Sometimes Anesthesia, sometimes the body region
C) Always Anesthesia
D) Always the body region

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Question 93

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Qualifying-circumstance modifiers 99116 and 99135 add ____ additional units to an anesthesia CPT code.

A seventy-five-year-old patient is identified in the pre-op room and brought to the surgical suite for bypass coronary artery surgery. The anesthesia provided for this service would be described by the appropriate anesthesia CPT code and qualifying-circumstance modifier:

Endotracheal through existing tracheotomy, or via a mask, or nasal cannula are examples of the type of method of:

For anesthesia services, time begins when:

(T) is the abbreviation for:

The type of anesthesia used is determined by the:

Intraoperatively, a forty-two-year-old female patient's anesthesia service was converted from MAC to general anesthesia due to her inability to control her airway. This service is coded as:

What is the appropriate abbreviation for base units?

99140 is the only qualifying-circumstances modifier that adds _____ additional units to the anesthesia CPT code to which it is appended:

The word "anesthesia" means:

MAC for a patient who has a history of a severe cardiopulmonary condition is communicated by using modifier:

One remaining surgical procedure is scheduled in the surgical suite for the day. The attending anesthesiologist prepares the day's documentation while remaining available for one CRNA that provides anesthesia administration for today's last case. When billing for this anesthesia service, the coder should use modifier _______ to describe the anesthesiologist's role in providing anesthesia.

Modifiers that are used with all anesthesia procedure codes to rank the physical condition of the patient and the level of anesthesia complexity inherent to each ranking are:

A forty-six-year-old patient is waiting to be induced into anesthesia. Two CRNAs were originally scheduled to administer anesthesia to this patient, under supervision of an anesthesiologist. The CRNAs are still attending to another patient and the supervising anesthesiologist has to administer anesthesia for this patient. This would be reported using the following anesthesia-specific modifier:

All of the following are considered part of the work of an anesthesia service and are not coded separately except:

The following qualifying-circumstance modifier(s) add(s) one (1) additional unit to an anesthesia CPT code:

Preoperative and postoperative visits:

The surgeon performing the surgical procedure typically also performs this type of anesthesia: