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Bilateral genicular nerve ablation

Date: Feb 25, 2019

Question:

When a patient gets bilateral nerve ablation of the genicular nerves (superior-medial, superolateral, inferomedial, and suprapatellar), can you code this as a bilateral procedure: 64640-50, 64640-XS-50, 64640-XS-50, 64640-XS-50? There is an MUE of 5 if listed individually, but I do not get an edit if I code them as bilateral.

Question ID : 12103
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