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Your good friend Ryan has called you from school because he has a test tomorrow on anesthesia and radiology. Because of the recent job you received working for an oral surgeon, he felt you were a great choice for help. Topics he feels unsure of still on anesthesia are the 4 classifications of anesthesia and the 4 different sets of modifiers used for billing anesthesia.
Because you feel extra ambitious today, you told him to wait a little bit and you would create a PowerPoint presentation that he can review which will answer his questions.
Assignment Guidelines:
• Create a 8-10-slide PowerPoint presentation that covers the following information:
o Research and explain the 4 different sets of modifiers used for billing anesthesia and provide an example of each.
o Explain the 4 main classifications of anesthesia, and provide an example of each.
o Describe 2 different radiology procedures.
• Include speaking notes so if Ryan needs to, he can give the presentation out to classmates to study

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Per your request concerning the four sets of Anesthesia Billing Code Modifiers, they are as such:

Code Modifier Information Billed by an Anesthesiologist:

AA Anesthesia services personally performed by the anesthesiologist

AD Supervision, more than four procedures

QK Medical Direction of two, three or four concurrent anesthesia procedures

QY Medical Direction of one CRNA by an anesthesiologist

Additional Billing five digit sequences: (required by various ...

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