Anesthesia was provided for a 75-year-old patient who was having a biopsy performed on the salivary gland to determine the nature of a mass. He also had chronic essential benign hypertension. Select the appropriate CPT codes for the anesthesia service, as well as the ICD-10-CM codes.

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The correct CPT code for anesthesia for procedures on the salivary gland is 00100. The modifier -P3 is used to indicate a patient with severe systemic disease, which is appropriate for a patient with chronic essential benign hypertension. The additional code 99100 is not needed as it is used for age-related physical status modifiers, which do not apply in this scenario. The ICD-10-CM code for a mass in the salivary gland is K11.9 (Disease of salivary gland, unspecified), and I10 is the correct code for essential (primary) hypertension.

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