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Medical Coding

Category - Anesthesia

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A physician harvested a viable left cornea, liver, and heart from a declared brain-dead patient. What anesthesia services should have been provided?
  1. 01990
  2. No anesthesia services should have been performed on a brain-dead patient
  3. 33930, 47133-51, 65110-51
  4. 01990-P6
Explanation
Answer: D - The anesthesia service that should have been reported is 01990-P6, (Physiological support for harvesting or organ(s) from brain-dead patient). Modifier -P6 also should have been reported to indicate that the patient’s physical status, which in this case, is a declared brain-dead patient whose organs were being removed for donor purposes.
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