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Pain Management Focus:

Are You Covering All the Details for Chemodenervation Claims?

Published on Thu Apr 20, 2017

Pinpointing body area and laterality are keys to your success. If any of your anesthesiologists provide pain management services, you probably face chemodenervation claims on a regular basis. Filing the claim is more involved than assigning a single code, however; you need to determine the body area that was treated, the muscles treated, and the laterality. Here's why: If the [...]
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