Intraoperatively, a forty-two-year-old female patient's anesthesia service was converted from MAC to general anesthesia due to her inability to control her airway. This service is coded as:

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When a procedure starts with Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC) but is converted to general anesthesia due to complications such as the inability to control the airway, the anesthesia service is coded as general anesthesia. This includes the use of the appropriate physical status and qualifying-circumstance modifiers to accurately reflect the patient's condition and the circumstances of the anesthesia service.

Intraoperatively, a Forty-Two-Year-Old Female Patient's Anesthesia Service Was Converted from MAC