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Fluoroscopy with a lumbar puncture
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Our RADS have new lumbar puncture templates. Is this enough to bill 62328? Or where it says "under imaging guidance,"should they state fluoroscopy was used?
"PROCEDURE DETAILS: Diagnostic lumbar puncture with fluoroscopic guidance.
Total intra-service sedation time (minutes): Not applicable. Lumbar puncture: The patient was placed in prone position. Local anesthesia was administered. Under imaging guidance, a spinal needle was advanced into the subarachnoid space using a midline interspinous approach."
Shouldn't they state, "Under fluoroscopy, a spinal needle was advanced..."?
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