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CPT® 101:

Refresh Your Arthrography Coding Knowledge

Published on Fri Feb 23, 2024

Find out which hip code to report with anesthesia. When traditional joint X-rays don’t show the details needed to make an accurate diagnosis, radiologists can use arthrography to better view the body structure. This procedure involves injecting the patient with contrast media, but unlike some other contrast-related codes, arthrography codes require an extra code for the contrast use. This is [...]
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