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File G89.18 for Post-op Pain Management Care

Published on Mon Nov 07, 2016

Question: Our anesthesiologists use ultrasound guidance when placing nerve blocks for post-operative pain control (sciatic/femoral/etc.). Since January, CMS has been denying about 85 percent of our [...]
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