1. Mrs. Montgomery, a 38 week pregnant woman comes for labor. She wanted to have the baby vaginally. Epidural was given, twenty hours later there was still 6 cm dilatation. The physician decides a cesarean delivery. She is taken to the OR and given anesthesia for CS -

2. Cesarean delivery only –

3. The anesthesiologist provides epidural anesthesia for a hypertensive patient during her labor. She has also been diagnosed with gestational diabetes and anemia related to late-term vaginal bleeding. Due to fetal distress during labor, the obstetrician performs an emergency C-section, and the anesthesiologist provides anesthesia care for the C-section following the epidural for planned vaginal delivery. –

4. Harvesting of liver from brain dead patient–

5. Your anesthesiologist administers an epidural for a patient with lumbar pain at an ambulatory surgery center –

6. The anesthesiologist performs a Para vertebral nerve block L3-L4, L4-L5, and L5-L6. He places the injections into the sympathetic nerve chain –

7. Dr.Zen the anesthesiologist performs a diagnostic nerve block on a patient complaining of “burning tongue” to determine its etiology. The injection was into the mandibular lingual nerve –

8. Patient has cervical epidural injection for shoulder and neck pain without catheter placement. Choose CPT code:

9. Medicare patient receives an epidural the same day through catheter as her surgery solely for postoperative pain management. For which of the following codes would Medicare reimburse for?

10. Code for the anesthesia portion of both the harvesting and the moribund (near-death) recipient of a liver.