AMA CPT® Assistant - 2007 Issue 7 (July)

Medicine: Neurology and Neuromuscular Procedures (July 2007)

July 2007 page 15-end Coding Communication:Medicine: Neurology and Neuromuscular Procedures Question If a nerve conduction study of the median sensory nerve to the first digit and the median palmar mixed nerve is performed, is it appropriate to report CPT code 95904 twice? AMA Comment CPT code 95904, Nerve conduction, amplitude and latency/velocity study, each nerve; sensory, identifies a specific nerve's ability to conduct electrical signals within the nervous system. The testing can be performed for different parts of a specific nerve (ie, different segments of a given nerve) to identify local pathological responses, if they exist. CPT code 95904...

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