Neurology & Pain Management Coding Alert
Take Advantage of This EMG Coding Break in NCCI 12.0
While NCCI 12.0 is making neurology offices think twice about some of their coding combinations, it also brings a set of deletions that will unshackle your reporting for electromyography and nerve conduction studies from some nerve block codes.
You-ll also no longer need to concern yourself with many of the bundles that made 64550 (Application of surface [transcutaneous] neurostimulator) the comprehensive code for 20 other procedures, including intraoperative monitoring (95920) and evoked potentials (95925-95937).
You can now gleefully delete these edits:
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