Pain Management:
Latest Coding Edits Focus on Injections During Repair, Discography
Published on Mon Oct 29, 2012
Plus: Don't miss these important modifier changes for needle EMG. The most recent Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits went into effect Oct. 1, 2012, with hundreds involving some of the most common injection procedures for pain management specialists. The good news? It will be easy to remember how to put the edits into practice if they ever come into play for your physicians. Choose Injection over Skin Repair If a physician administers a pain management injection in conjunction with a skin repair, in most cases you should automatically submit only the injection code, not the repair. CCI version 18.3 lists the following injection procedures as the Column 1 codes of edit pairs: Neurolytic injection procedures (62280-62282) Injection procedures for discography (62290 and 62291) Neurolytic agent destruction of the trigeminal nerve (64600, 64605, and 64610) Chemodenervation (64611-64632) Neurolytic destruction of paravertebral facet joint nerves (64633 and 64635) Other neurolytic destruction and [...]