Archive for The Day of August 14th, 2007
Archive for the Day of August 14th, 2007
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of August 14th, 2007.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during August 14th, 2007.
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Are You Reporting Circumcision With Nerve Blocks Correctly?
There are some new guidelines for reporting a nerve block with a circumcision. In the past you may have reported this as two separate procedures using 54150 to document the circumcision and 64450 for the accompanying nerve block. However the AMA has revised code 54150 (Circumcision, using clamp or other device with regional dorsal penile or ring block) in the new edition of CPT 2007 to include the accompanying nerve block in the description of the service. As such, it would now be unnecessary to report 64450 (Injection, anesthetic agent; other peripheral nerve or branch) with 54150 for this purpose, and the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) bundles 64450 into …
