Capture an Extra $86 for Fluoro With Epidural Steroid Injection
Published on Wed Oct 13, 2010
Master coding for the growing pain-management trendYou need to get up to speed fast if your radiologist starts offering new services such as epidural steroid injections (ESIs) to help patients with pain, and we've got your CPT Codes , ICD-9 Codes and HCPCS Codes bases covered.Use this comprehensive look at coding pain management ESI encounters to be sure you're getting every dime you deserve.Watch the Approach for 62310-62311The radiologist likely will choose an interlaminar epidural approach, placing the medicine inside the epidural space."As long as the needle is positioned in the epidural or subarachnoid space with the needle [inserted] 'straight' in between the lamina," then the following are the correct codes, says Julee Shiley, CPC, CCS-P, CMC, a coding consultant in Raleigh, N.C.:• 62310 -- Injection, single (not via indwelling catheter), not including neurolytic substances, with or without contrast (for either localization or epidurography), of diagnostic or therapeutic substance(s) (including [...]