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    Wiki Joint Injections

    I have an ortho provider who is refusing to document his procedure further than "today we injected the knee with 40mg kenalog" I am trying to explain to him that any and all procedures should include at minimum: 1) Indications for procedure (medical necessity) 2) Anesthesia/Medication given...
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    Wiki Can a Cervical Tranforaminal injection be done with a catheter?

    I bill for a ASC and work with a doctor who has some confusing procedure notes at times. I want to know if you can use a catheter that has been threaded through the epidural space and then inject serveral formanina and bill it as multiple levels of a transforaminal injection (64479-64480). Any...
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    Wiki injection documentation

    I have a dermatologist that bills for injections for alopecia and acne, but never bills for the medication. The name of the medication is mentioned in the record, but not amounts, or lot numbers or anything - just its name. I seen to recal a Medicare regulation that says that you need to...
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