tci Part B Insider - 2014 Issue 24

Coding Quiz: Can You Code These Pain Management Scenarios?

Hint: Equate Marcaine with lidocaine rules when it comes to injections. Coding for pain management procedures has never been more complex. With various specialties providing pain care, dozens of OIG directives on how to bill the services properly and injection codes changing every year, your mind could be swirling with the coding possibilities. If you’d like to get a handle on how to tackle common pain coding scenarios, test yourself by reading these three commonly-asked questions and then figuring out what you’d do before you read the answers. Trigeminal Nerve Branches Can Be Confusing Question 1: Our...

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