Providers often hold three misconceptions about concurrency, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira: that concurrency is synonymous with medical direction, it only ...

Establish a special payment rule for teaching anesthesiologists; Specify the periods during which the teaching anesthesiologist must be present during the procedure to qualify for payment based on the ...

You would need to append modifier 59 to tell the insurance “this is separate from the anesthesia”. Documentation from the surgeon stating he/she requested the lumbar epidural for post-op pain is ...