CPT^® 95869, Under Electromyography Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 95869 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Electromyography Procedures.

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In this procedure, the provider uses an electromyograph to record electrical activity that skeletal muscle cells produce while the provider inserts needles into the muscles. The provider can hear the recordings on a loudspeaker.

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What CPT for Thoracic Paraspinal EMG w/ NCS? emg nerve conduction neuro paraspinal

Hi - I'm newer to coding Nerve Conduction Studies and EMGs and have questions about codes the provider selected: 95911 for NCS, and 95886, 95885 and 95869 for EMG My main question has to do with 9586... [ Read More ]

Intraoperative neurophysiology monitoring with Electrocorticogram 95940 + 95829

95940 is an add-on code that requires one of the parent codes to be also reported: [INDENT]This code can be reported with code(s): 92585, 95822, 95860, 95861, 95863, 95864, 95865, 95866, 95867, 95868,... [ Read More ]

Pedicle screw testing

You are correct. The monitoring should not be reported as nerve conduction studies. The following is from the May 2013 CPT Assistant: [INDENT][/INDENT]"Use electromyography codes 95860-95864, 95869,... [ Read More ]

95869 billing same day as 95886

Thanks for your answer Megan, yes I looked this up on EncoderPro and it gave me the edit, and yes both procedures were done in the same session and dictation does not support charging both 95869 and 9... [ Read More ]

95869 billing same day as 95886

And of course, I hit "reply" before I finished reading everything I should have! So after reading the instructions under the "Electromyography" section of the CPT, there is a notation that 95869 shou... [ Read More ]

95869 billing same day as 95886

[QUOTE="chrisden_7, post: 296577, member: 102430"]Physician wants to bill for an EMG for thoracic muscles that wasn't done with NCS, but on same visit for the upper right extremity NCS is done with an... [ Read More ]

95869 billing same day as 95886

Physician wants to bill for an EMG for thoracic muscles that wasn't done with NCS, but on same visit for the upper right extremity NCS is done with an EMG, from what I can see we cannot charge both 95... [ Read More ]

Cpt 95887

[QUOTE="phoover1955, post: 294746, member: 15099"]I am new to IOM, and have Code 95887 being denied by UHC. I know it's an add-on code, but the other codes billed were: 95941 95938 95937. I need to ... [ Read More ]

Neurosurgery - Can someone

Did your surgeon do the intraoperative monitoring or did another provider do it? If it is done during a surgery it is usually not billable by the surgeon. We have neuosurgeons and neuroligist in our... [ Read More ]

EMG Billing

Be sure you are using 95870 for muscles other than thoracic paraspinal (95869) paraspinal, cranial nerve supplied muscles.......... If it is two extremities, identify by LT or RT or RT, RT and the m... [ Read More ]

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