Anesthesia is quickly becoming one of the most decisive, and volatile, forces shaping ASC performance. A wave of policy changes across CMS and commercial payers is redefining how anesthesia is paid, ...

The American Society of Anesthesiologists has received questions regarding changes in reporting anesthesia services following the implementation of 5010 transaction code set standards, according to an ...

CMS has announced that anesthesia codes that include the phrase “not otherwise specified” in their descriptions (including procedure codes 00100-01996) do not meet the criteria of a non-specified ...