Can an anaesthetist bill a pre-anaesthetic consultation when taking a sedated & ventilated patient from the intensive care unit for a CT scan?

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As an anaesthetist who is not rostered in the intensive care unit (ICU), I am sometimes asked to go to ICU and take a ventilated and sedated patient to radiology for various imaging procedures such as CT scans and MRIs. Can I bill a pre-anaesthetic consultation when I go and see the patient? I don’t talk to them obviously. The initiation item I bill is 21922.

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