AMA CPT® Assistant - 1999 Issue 9 (September)

Medicine, 95904 (Q&A) (September 1999)

September 1999 page 11a Coding Consultation Medicine, 95904 (Q&A) Question What is the appropriate method to report performance of a sensory nerve conduction of the right sural, left sural, right superficial peroneal and left superficial peroneal nerves for amplitude and latency/velocity studies? Would it be appropriate to append modifier -52 to describe the performance of the right and left superficial peroneal nerve studies, in which our physician was unable to obtain measurable values. AMA Comment It would be appropriate to report performance of a sensory nerve conduction for amplitude and latency/velocity studies with CPT code 95904, Nerve conduction...

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