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READER QUESTION ~ Look to 95951 for Epilepsy Monitoring

Published on Tue Feb 27, 2007

Question: What is the most accurate diagnosis for epilepsy monitoring that lasts 13 hours?

Michigan Subscriber Answer: You should report 95951 (Monitoring for localization of cerebral seizure focus by cable or radio, 16 or more channel telemetry, combined electroencephalographic [EEG] and video recording and interpretation [e.g., for presurgical localization], each 24 hours) for epilepsy monitoring. The associated diagnosis code is 780.39 (Other convulsions).
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