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SI Joint Injection

Date: Jun 23, 2020

Question:

Does the 2020 code 64451 (nerves innervating the sacroiliac joint) replace 27096 when the injection states "into the SI joint", or is the code used in place of billing the S1,S2,S3 as peripheral (64450)?

Question ID : 14085
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