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Plantar Injections

Published on Thu Mar 06, 2014

Question: Our clinic has a number of patients seeking treatment for pain in the ball of the foot. As a result, our physician administers a lot of steroid injections and injections of anesthetic. How should I code these? Is there any critical information that I need to know when reporting these procedures? North Carolina Subscriber Answer: Use 64455 (Injection[s], anesthetic agent and/or [...]
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