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A physician is performing joint injection - he is billing J2001 as an anesthetic along with the Celestone and/or other Gel products. J2001 is described for "injection, lidocaine hcl for IV infusion". Also, CCI states that you cannot bill for a local, topical or regional anesthesia by the physician performing the procedure. I am having a difficult time

1. Is J2001 an injection as well as used for IV?
2. Is it correct for me to say that this should not be billed?

I am fairly new to orthopedics and would appreciate any assistance. We are getting "Smart Edits" from UHC on this code utilizing NDC 0040947602.

Thank you !!! :(
 
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In our office we use Lidocaine/Xylocaine in our injections. For tracking purposes, say we are billing for a knee injection:

J2000 is entered for only the Xylocaine for the number of units billed with no charge on the line
J3301 for Kenalog with units or Depo with units
20610 for the knee injection

This way our nurse manager can track how much of each medication the providers are using.
 
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