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Get Your Nerve (Knowledge) Up for These Injection Claims

Published on Thu May 05, 2022

Here’s why you need to know the difference between trigeminal and greater occipital nerves. When your provider performs a nerve injection, it’s up to you to differentiate between the services to code correctly—and to choose the right ICD-10 code to prove medical necessity. Two nerve injections that your provider might perform involve the trigeminal and greater occipital nerves. Providers use [...]
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