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Curious how Y'all are accommodating CMS with this request? Are you having them right an order? Put it in their dictation?, etc?
thanks peeps
CMS Requires Surgeon to Document Reason for Post-op Pain Block
Chapter 2 of the National Correct Coding Initiative states, “Postoperative pain management services are generally provided by the surgeon who is reimbursed under a global payment policy related to the procedure and shall not be reported by the anesthesia practitioner unless separate, medically necessary services are required that cannot be rendered by the surgeon. The surgeon is responsible to document in the medical record the reason care is being referred to the anesthesia practitioner.”
"it is the responsibility of the surgeon to document in the medical record the reason that he has referred to an anesthesiologist for assistance with postoperative pain management."
Of course, this is utter nonsense since it assumes the anesthesiologists are either incompetent and can't make that determination themselves, or alternatively, that they will defraud the government by ordering blocks where they are not medically necessary, neither of which is true.
thanks peeps
CMS Requires Surgeon to Document Reason for Post-op Pain Block
Chapter 2 of the National Correct Coding Initiative states, “Postoperative pain management services are generally provided by the surgeon who is reimbursed under a global payment policy related to the procedure and shall not be reported by the anesthesia practitioner unless separate, medically necessary services are required that cannot be rendered by the surgeon. The surgeon is responsible to document in the medical record the reason care is being referred to the anesthesia practitioner.”
"it is the responsibility of the surgeon to document in the medical record the reason that he has referred to an anesthesiologist for assistance with postoperative pain management."
Of course, this is utter nonsense since it assumes the anesthesiologists are either incompetent and can't make that determination themselves, or alternatively, that they will defraud the government by ordering blocks where they are not medically necessary, neither of which is true.
