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The anesthesiologist and the Qualiï¬ed Nonphysician Anesthetist can bill separately for anesthesia. services they personally perform. In cases of medical direction, both the anesthesiologist and the Qualiï¬ed. Nonphysician Anesthetist would bill Medicare for their component of the procedure.
Anesthesia is a way to control pain during a surgery or procedure by using medicine called anesthetics. It can help control your breathing, blood pressure, blood flow, and heart rate and rhythm. Anesthesia may be used to: 1  Relax you.2  Block pain.3  Make you sleepy or forgetful.ut all anesthesia has some risk. For example: 1  After general anesthesia heart problems, pneumonia, sore throat, or vomiting can occur. 2  With high doses of local anesthesia, the anesthetic can go into the rest of the body and affect your brain or heart. 3  After spinal anesthesia some people get headaches.