Eli's Rehab Report
Correction:
EMG or NCS?
Published on Sun Jun 01, 2003
The May 2003 Physical Medicine and Rehab Coding Alert "You Be the Coder EMG or NCS?" should have advised coders to report four units of 95904 (Nerve conduction, amplitude and latency/ velocity study, each nerve; sensory) and one unit of 95934 (H-reflex, amplitude and latency study; record gastrocnemius/ soleus muscle) for a motor nerve conduction study with F-wave to ulnar sensory nerve study to the fourth digit; median sensory nerve to the third digit; radial sensory nerve study to the first digit; peroneal nerve; and H-reflex study right side, gastrocnemius.
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