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CPT® Coding:

I.D. Differences Between Decompression and Discography

Published on Thu Jan 04, 2018

Differentiate between diagnostic and therapeutic testing. Patients reporting to your provider for injection for discography or disc decompression are obviously in pain. As a coder, if you don't know the differences between these two common procedures, the payer could bring the pain with questions about your claim. The challenge: Though CPT® groups the codes together in the coding manual, there [...]
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