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Sedation for cardioversion using Propofol 99152?

Date: Aug 16, 2018

Question:

Several of our cardiologists are using Propofol for sedation on cardioversions. Can they bill code 99152 (all requirements met for the code) for the Propofol sedation even though it's technically a deep sedation? If not, that doesn't seem fair to reduce the RVUs on some of these procedures when we cannot capture the sedation and that's the riskiest part of the procedure. Do you have any recommendations?

Question ID : 11294
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