Neurology & Pain Management Coding Alert

CPT® Coding:

Check Out Individual Policies on Face/Neck Chemodenervation

Payer matters when it comes to diagnoses for these injections. Coders have a potential problem when patients report to the physician for face/neck muscle chemodenervation. Patients might suffer from a number of conditions. and CPT® might not list all the conditions that would merit the service in its descriptors. Expert take: “CPT® does list examples for each of these [muscle [...]
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