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Guidance Coding:

See Your Way to Clearly Coding Guidance With 64520

Published on Thu May 22, 2014

Hint: Understanding the reason for fluoro is your best first step. Knowing whether you can separately report fluoroscopic guidance for pain management injections can sometimes get tricky, even for experienced coders. Here’s what you need to know for one common scenario: 64520 (Injection, anesthetic agent; lumbar or thoracic [paravertebral sympathetic]) with 77002 (Fluoroscopic guidance for needle placement [e.g., biopsy aspiration, [...]
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