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Keep Your TPI Skills Sharp for Bullseye Coding

Published on Tue May 07, 2019

Trio of experts runs down some of the finer points of TPI. Coding for trigger point injections (TPIs) is pretty easy … right? The provider performs a TPI or TPIs; you count the number of muscles the provider injected, and choose one of the following codes: 20552 — Injection(s); single or multiple trigger point(s), 1 or 2 muscle(s) 20553 — … single [...]
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