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ZHealth Special Edition Newsletter Revision

Special Edition Newsletter: Moderate Sedation

Revision to 'Professional Billing of Moderate Sedation by the Physician Performing the Procedure When in a Facility Site of Service'

The codes for reporting moderate sedation performed by a physician or other qualified health care professional other than the one performing the procedure do not have different RVUs for the facility and non-facility sites of service. The RVUs are the same. There is also an NA in the NON-FAC NA INDICATOR column of the RVU file. From the CMS document explaining the NA in this field: An “NA” in this field indicates that this procedure is rarely or never performed in the non-facility setting.

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