Wiki 76942 Imaging for Blocks

[slwilson]

I am looking for the exact citation or guidance on the use of 76942 (US guidance for needle placement). I am seeing conflicting information on the use... When multiple blocks are performed, and US guidance is used on each, can the 76942 be coded for each?
Thank you for Help!

 

[Michele Hannon]

Your reference is NCCI Manual Chapter 9. The following was copied/pasted from that chapter:
CPT codes 76942, 77002, 77003, 77012, and 77021 describe radiologic guidance for needle placement by different modalities. CMS payment policy allows one unit of service for any of these codes at a single patient encounter regardless of the number of needle placements performed. The unit of service for these codes is the patient encounter, not number of lesions, number of aspirations, number of biopsies, number of injections, or number of localizations.

 

[slwilson]

Thank you!!!!