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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The correct coding for a service that starts as Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC) but is converted to general anesthesia due to the patient's inability to control their airway is to code it as general anesthesia. This includes the appropriate physical status and qualifying-circumstance modifiers to accurately reflect the complexity and nature of the service provided.

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