AMA CPT® Assistant - 2007 Issue 12 (December)
Medicine (December 2007)
December 2007 page 16b Bonus Feature:Medicine Question: When performing electromyography (EMG) on cranial nerve supplied muscles via the endotracheal tube sticker electrode, the sticker electrode measures one channel of EMG from both sides. Thus, it is bilateral monitoring with a single channel. Would that be considered unilateral (95867) or bilateral (95868)? Answer: Code 95865, Needle electromyography; larynx, should be reported as opposed to 95867 or 95868. Code 95865 represents inherently bilateral recording. Medicine (December 2007). CPT® Assistant. 2007; December 2007 page 16b ...
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