Neurology & Pain Management Coding Alert

Pain Management:

Target TPI Coding by Counting Muscles, Documenting Pain

Providers can perform TPIs on any muscle group. When your provider performs trigger point injections (TPIs) for patients, you’ll need to be ready to check which muscles the provider injected, and how many muscled she injected, in order to code correctly. We asked Judith Blaszczyk, RN, CPC, ACS-PM, medical compliance auditor at Auditing for Compliance and Education, Inc. in Overland [...]
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