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Greater and Lesser Occipital Nerve RFA

Date: May 13, 2022

Question:

When radiofrequency ablation is completed of the greater and lesser occipital nerves, do you report a code for each, or should only 64640 be reported once for RFA of both of these nerves (and not report 64450)?

Question ID : 16355
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