The pre, intra and postoperative planning is patient specific, can be complex, and is known as the perioperative plan.

When and how procedural anesthesia and postoperative pain blocks are administered often play a role in procedure reimbursements for care. There are various POP blocks available for anesthesiologists ...

2. Under-utilization of -59: It’s not taboo. When the Medicare edits (NCCI) correct coding modifier indicator (i.e., 1) allows a modifier to indicate a “separate” and “distinct” procedure, users may ...

Propofol is used in the operating room to induce anesthesia. To maintain anesthesia, a continuous infusion of the agent via a separate syringe pump is the standard procedure for total intravenous ...