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Anesthesia Payment and Crosswalks
The anesthesia module provides the official ASA RVUs and crosswalks from Anesthesia services to CPT codes and vice versa. There is a stepwise process for calculating anesthesia services as seen below:
Find your desired anesthesia code first, then click the ASA RVU payment button. This will take you into the screen detail screen where you will fill in the options to complete the calculations.

1. The Base Anesthesia RVUs are preset for each code

2. If anesthesia time units are allowed, you should enter a starting and ending time, separating the hour and minutes with a colon and remembering to enter am or pm. (Flash Code will enter am if you don't list either). Also remember to place a start and end date, in cases that run past midnight.

3. Select only one Physical Status Modifier that best determines the status of the patient.

4. Select any appropriate combination of Qualifying Circumstances that apply. Click once to select, again to deselect, if need be.

That's it. Flash Code calculates the total RVUs, then multiplies them by the Conversion Factor for the Geographic region you have selected. This provides the total medicare allowable amount for these anesthesia services.

Anesthesia Crosswalks allow the user to see which CPT codes link to anesthesia codes...and vice versa. To view these associations, just click on the ASA Xwalk button from either an ASA code or CPT code while viewing the Payment Detail screen.
You will then be able to view the linked codes as shown below.