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"Approximate" time for timed procedure-99152

Date: Jul 22, 2019

Question:

If a physician does not provide a start and stop time or state the exact number of minutes, but rather states "face-to-face moderate sedation time was 'approximately' 20 minutes", is this acceptable in order to report code 99152?

Question ID : 12809
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