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Conquer Occipital Nerve Block Claims By Identifying the Specific Nerve

Published on Wed Sep 11, 2019

If the surgeon performs GON nerve block, you should report 64405. You read in the medical documentation that the patient has been experiencing excruciating headaches because his occipital nerve has been malfunctioning. So, your neurosurgeon performs an occipital nerve block, which is anesthetization of the nerve, to help manage the pain. To submit a clean claim for this scenario, you [...]
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