AMA CPT® Assistant - 1997 Issue 6 (June)
Anesthesia, 00850, 00857 (Q&A) (June 1997)
June 1997 page 11-end Coding Consultation Anesthesia, 00850, 00857 (Q&A) Question If a physician performs an epidural (continuous) for a woman in labor and then administers anesthesia for a cesarean-delivery (endotracheal), should I use code 00857, Continuous epidural analgesia, for labor and cesarean section, to describe the service? AMA Comment No. Code 00857 represents continuous epidural anesthesia provided for both the labor pains and the delivery performed by cesarean delivery. This is not be the case in an endotracheally administered anesthesia given for the delivery. Instead, you should use two codes,62279*, Injection of diagnostic or therapeutic anesthetic...
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