A forty-six-year-old patient is waiting to be induced into anesthesia. Two CRNAs were originally scheduled to administer anesthesia to this patient, under supervision of an anesthesiologist. The CRNAs are still attending to another patient and the supervising anesthesiologist has to administer anesthesia for this patient. This would be reported using the following anesthesia-specific modifier:

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Modifier AA is used to indicate that an anesthesiologist personally performed the anesthesia service, which is the case when the anesthesiologist steps in to administer anesthesia due to the CRNAs being unavailable.

A Forty-Six-Year-Old Patient Is Waiting to Be Induced into Anesthesia