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FYI on TPI: Know When You Can Code These Shots in the ED

Published on Mon Jul 22, 2024

Remember to count muscles injected. Therapeutic injections and infusions aren’t typically billable physician services in the ED setting — but that doesn’t mean you have to give up on reporting a procedure code every time the ED physician pulls out a needle. Take trigger point injections (TPIs); these can be performed in many different areas of the body, and ED [...]
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