tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2019 Issue Q4
CPT® Coding: Make Occipital Nerve Block Coding as Pain-Free as Possible
Know exactly how to code for a GON, LON, and TON nerve blocks. Consider a clinical scenario where a patient battling chronic headaches due to a malfunctioning occipital nerve gets treatment at your outpatient facility. Specifically, this treatment involves an occipital nerve block, which anesthetizes the misfiring nerve, offering the patient respite from the pain. In order to get the coding right, you’ve got to confirm a few sets of details including which of the three occipital nerves the surgeon performed the block on. Read further to feel fully confident and capable when you’re tasked with...
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