tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2001 Issue 10

Code Number of Trigger-Point Injections by Muscle Groups

When surgeons provide trigger-point injections, they may perform more than one injection in the same muscle group. The number of injections to be billed, however, does not depend on the number of injections performed. Instead, carriers should be charged for the number of muscle groups that received trigger-point injections, experts say. Some carriers may not pay for more than one injection in any case, and others may pay for only a set number of injections, regardless of the number of muscle groups targeted. If only one muscle group was targeted, only one injection may be charged, even...

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