A seventy-five-year-old patient is identified in the pre-op room and brought to the surgical suite for bypass coronary artery surgery. The anesthesia provided for this service would be described by the appropriate anesthesia CPT code and qualifying-circumstance modifier:

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The correct choice is 99100, which is the CPT modifier used for anesthesia services provided under circumstances that may affect the patient's well-being, specifically for patients of extreme age, under one year or over seventy years. This is applicable here since the patient is seventy-five years old and undergoing coronary artery surgery.

A Seventy-Five-Year-Old Patient Is Identified in the Pre-Op Room and Brought