January 2019
Value-based reimbursements will be applied to additional anesthesia time and base modifiers
The value-based reimbursement fee schedule sets fees at greater than 100 percent of the anesthesia maximum payment schedule.
Currently, if an anesthesiologist is eligible to be reimbursed in accordance with the VBR fee schedule, value-based reimbursements are applied to the time and base codes billed by the anesthesiologist with the AA and GC modifiers.
Effective March 1, 2019, value-based reimbursements will also be applied to the time and base codes billed by anesthesiologists with the QK and QY modifiers.
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