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Aspirations & Injections:

Keep Up With These Common Needle Procedures

Published on Wed Jul 06, 2022

Policy will drive whether to report dry needling. Patients that report to the orthopedist for treatment of certain painful conditions will often undergo a therapeutic procedure using a needle. These can be injections or aspirations, and they’ll often include some tricky coding decisions. Such as? Some payers might not cover certain aspiration procedures, while others will. Choosing the correct code [...]
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