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Dive Deep on Nerve Blocks for Postoperative and Chronic Pain

Published on Mon Nov 24, 2025

Hint: In some situations, you need to know whether the surgeon requested a block. Postoperative pain blocks are used to manage acute pain following a surgical procedure. They are billed in addition to the primary anesthesia code. For these blocks to be billable, there must be documentation that the block was requested by the surgeon and was performed specifically for [...]
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