Wiki RT Femoral & Articular Nerve RFA?

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Hi! I code pain management procedures for my ASC and we have a physician coming in to do a procedure our normal doc does not perform...so I want to get it right! He's listing the procedure above as a 2 peripheral nerve hip ablation and provided cpt 64640 x2. Patient has Medicare (I can't find an LCD for this code) and has only had one hip MBB...but I know Medicare requires 2 for cervical/thoracic or lumbar/sacral RF's. Is the RF code appropriate? Cervical/Thoracic and Lumbar/Sacral are billed per joint and not nerve...would the hip be billed the same? Is a second hip MBB required even before I get that far? Any help or guidance would be much appreciated...thank you!!!
 
Hi there, if I understand properly these are not paravertebral facet joint RFAs, so the guidelines for those services would not apply.
 
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