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Count Muscles for Trigger Point Injections

Published on Mon May 20, 2013

Question: In a patient who sustained whiplash injury in a road traffic accident, our ED surgeon performed trigger point injections in four sites. We reported 20552x2 and were denied payment for the second code. Please help us understand how we are wrong to report the second code. The descriptor for 20552 states “one or two muscle[s],” so for four muscles [...]
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