AMA CPT® Assistant - 2020 Issue 2 (February)
Reporting Dry Needling Technique (February 2020)
February 2020 page 9 Reporting Dry Needling Technique For the 2020 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, two new codes were established to report needle insertion(s) without injection(s) for one or two muscle(s) (20560) and for three or more muscles (20561). In addition, a new exclusionary parenthetical note was added to prohibit reporting existing codes 20552 and 20553 with these two new codes for the same muscle(s). This article provides an overview of these changes. Introduction or Removal 20552Injection(s); single or multiple trigger point(s), 1 or 2 muscle(s) 20553single or multiple trigger point(s), 3 or more muscles (Do...
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