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CCI 18.3:

Don't Miss These Edits Affecting Injections During Repair, Discography

Published on Sun Nov 11, 2012

Pain management changes are widespread, but easy.The most recent Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits went into effect Oct. 1, 2012, with hundreds involving some of the most common injection procedures for pain management specialists. The good news for pain management coders is that putting the edits into practice will be simple when you focus on a few key areas. Choose Injection Over Skin Repair If a physician administers a pain management injection in conjunction with a skin repair, in most cases you should automatically submit only the injection code, not the repair. CCI version 18.3 lists the following injection procedures as the Column 1 codes of edit pairs: Neurolytic injection procedures (62280-62282) Injection procedures for discography (62290 and 62291) Neurolytic agent destruction of the trigeminal nerve (64600, 64605, and 64610) Chemodenervation (64611-64632) Neurolytic destruction of paravertebral facet joint nerves (64633 and 64635) Other neurolytic destruction and chemodenervation procedures (64640, 64650, [...]
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