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I am a GI coder so I am asking help from anyone who is willing to answer. I had a family member go to the PCP thinking he had bursitis in his hip. PCP injected Depo-medrol INTO HIS THIGH (patient says NOTHING injected near his hip). Drs office charged both a 96372 and a 20610. Is this correct? I was thinking that the 20610 was only for injections/aspirations from a major joint. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
 
Unfortunately I have run into this before. Some coders think that you must charge an injection admin code with all injections including the joint injections. I have no idea where this started but it is wrong. Now as far as whether this is a joint injection or a trigger point or an IM we would need to see a procedure note, but it is only one not two charges.
 
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