AMA CPT® Assistant - 2004 Issue 2 (February)
Proper Use of Needle EMG CPT Codes 95860-95870 (February 2004)
February 2004 page 4 Coding Communication:Proper Use of Needle EMG CPT Codes 95860-95870 A common question about needle electromyography (EMG) studies concerns how many muscles need to be studied per limb in order to use the limb EMG codes 95860-95864. Another frequent question is how to use CPT codes 95869 and 95870 to report limited needle EMG studies of specific muscles in the limbs and trunk musculature? In order to clarify the proper use of these codes, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) formulated the following policies for Medicare patients. These policies were outlined in the Federal...
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