American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians 2022 Annual Meeting
American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians 24th Annual Meeting

CATEGORY 1 CREDIT
The Institute for Medical Studies designates this live activity for a maximum of 24 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Physicians of Osteopathic Medicine: The American Osteopathic Association (AOA) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ as AOA Category 2-B credit. RN, NP, AND PA CREDIT Nurse Practitioners: The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

RNs/ APNs: Most State Nursing Boards accept CE activities designated for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ towards relicensure requirements. Check with your board to determine whether they will accept this CME activity towards your re-licensure. This activity is designated for up to 24 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

Physician Assistants: The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Pay Attention to these Anesthesia codes from January 1, 2022.

Deleted Anesthesia Codes
01935 Anesthesia for percutaneous image guided procedures on the spine and spinal cord; diagnostic (5 base)
01936 Anesthesia for percutaneous image guided procedures on the spine and spinal cord; therapeutic (5 base)
New Anesthesia Codes
In their place are 6 new (more granular) codes. Ideally, you should have begun submitting these to payers on January 1st.

However, if your billing and/or coding platform wasn’t updated in time, you can always run a report to identify such cases, so that you’re able to resubmit corrected claims.

As you’ll notice, anesthesia providers effectively lost one base unit per case on most of these procedures, due to revaluation.

New Anesthesia Codes
01937 Anesthesia for percutaneous image-guided injection, drainage or aspiration procedures on the spine or spinal cord; cervical or thoracic (4 base)

 01938 Anesthesia for percutaneous image-guided injection, drainage or aspiration procedures on the spine or spinal cord; lumbar or sacral (4 base)

01939 Anesthesia for percutaneous image-guided destruction procedures by neurolytic agent on the spine or spinal cord; cervical or thoracic (4 base)

01940 Anesthesia for percutaneous image-guided destruction procedures by neurolytic agent on the spine or spinal cord; lumbar or sacral (4 base)

01941 Anesthesia for percutaneous image-guided neuromodulation or intravertebral procedures (eg, kyphoplasty, vertebroplasty) on the spine or spinal cord; cervical or thoracic (5 base)

01942 Anesthesia for percutaneous image-guided neuromodulation or intravertebral procedures (eg, kyphoplasty, vertebroplasty) on the spine or spinal cord; lumbar or sacral (5 base)

New Anesthesia Flat Fee Codes
There were also two new neurolytic procedure codes and one new TEE code added for reporting. These are “flat fee”, non-time-based procedures.